The demise of short-term memory revisited: empirical and computational investigations of recency effects
Davelaar, Eddy J. and Goshen-Gottstein, Y. and Ashkenazi, A. and Haarmann, H.J. and Usher, Marius (2005) The demise of short-term memory revisited: empirical and computational investigations of recency effects. Psychological Review 112 (1), pp. 3-42. ISSN 0033-295X.
Abstract
In the single-store model of memory, the enhanced recall for the last items in a free-recall task (i.e., the recency effect) is understood to reflect a general property of memory rather than a separate short-term store. This interpretation is supported by the finding of a long-term recency effect under conditions that eliminate the contribution from the short-term store. In this article, evidence is reviewed showing that recency effects in the short and long terms have different properties, and it is suggested that 2 memory components are needed to account for the recency effects: an episodic contextual system with changing context and an activation-based short-term memory buffer that drives the encoding of item-context associations. A neurocomputational model based on these 2 components is shown to account for previously observed dissociations and to make novel predictions, which are confirmed in a set of experiments.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2019 12:06 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:55 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29899 |
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