Associative Retrieval Processes in Episodic Memory
By Michael J. Kahana, Marc W Howard, Sean M. Polyn. 2008
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Association and context constitute two of the central ideas in the history of episodic memory research. Following a brief discussion of the history of these ideas, we review data that demonstrate the complementary roles of temporal contiguity and semantic relatedness in determining the order in which subjects recall lists of items and the timing of their successive recalls. These analyses reveal that temporal contiguity effects normally studied on short timescales persist over very long timescales, a result that challenges traditional psychological and neuroscientific models of association. The form of the temporal contiguity effect is conserved across all of the major recall tasks and even appears in item recognition when subjects respond with high confidence. The near-universal form of the contiguity effect and its appearance at diverse timescales is shown to place tight constraints on the major theories of association.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology
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- The Successor Representation and Temporal Context (2012, background): “We first briefly review some of the basic empirical findings from free recall experiments motivating TCM (for a comprehensive review, see Kahana, Howard, & Polyn, 2008 ).”