There is no capacity limited buffer in the Murdock (1962) free recall data

Contiguity is limited in free recall

Does the " law of contiguity " apply to free recall? I find that conditional response probabilities, often used as evidence for contiguity in free recall, have been displayed insufficiently, limiting the distance from the last item recalled, and only averaged over all items. When fully expanding the x-axis and examining the conditional response probabilities separately for the beginning, middle...

The Atkinson-Shiffrin model is ill-defined and does not correctly describe the Murdock free recall data

The Atkinson-Shiffrin (1968) model, the de facto standard model of short term memory cited thousands of times, fits the characteristically bowed free recall curves from Murdock (1962) well. However, it is long overdue to note that it is not a theoretically convincing explanation and that it does not fit all of the experimental relationships in the Murdock data. To obtain a qualitatively correct...

There is no free lunch--really.

A Survey on the Doubt in Primary Holy War Based on the verse: There is no compulsion in religion

One of the common doubts in commentating the verse: There is no compulsion in religion, has been considered as the problem of disagreement between primary holy war in Islam and the meaning of the verse. By the verse is meant real negation of every compulsion in Divine religion, every internal compulsion for making people to accept religion and every external compulsion in the realm of Divine re...

Reimbursement risks with radiologist extenders: there is no free lunch!

There is great allure in the concept of using qualified health care providers to assist radiologists and radiation oncologists, increasing efficiency and possibly even improving patient care delivery. However, physician services are most commonly reimbursed under a system that is resource based, and the physician work and practice expense components of reimbursement for existing procedure codes...