Rapid presentation rate negatively impacts the contiguity effect in free recall
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Claudio Toro-Serey, Ian Bright, Brad Wyble, Marc Howard. 2019. "Rapid presentation rate negatively impacts the contiguity effect in free recall." Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qb5sx
Abstract
It is well-known that in free recall participants tend to recall
words presented close together in time in sequence, reflecting
a form of temporal binding in memory. This contiguity effect
is robust, having been observed across many different experimental
manipulations. In order to explore a potential boundary
on the contiguity effect, participants performed a free recall
task in which items were presented at rates ranging from 2 Hz
to 8 Hz. Participants were still able to recall items even at
the fastest presentation rate, though accuracy decreased. Importantly,
the contiguity effect flattened as presentation rates
increased. These findings illuminate possible constraints on
the temporal encoding of episodic memories.
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