The well-known recency effect in immediate free recall reverses when subjects attempt to recall items studied and tested on a series of prior lists. In this final free recall task, terminal list items are remembered less well than mid-list items (Craik, 1970). Because dual-store memory models naturally predict this negative-recency effect, it has long been cited as evidence favoring these model...

The anterior thalamic nuclei form part of a network for episodic memory in humans. The importance of these nuclei for recognition and recency judgments remains, however, unclear. Rats with anterior thalamic nuclei lesions and their controls were tested on object recognition, along with two types of recency judgment. The spontaneous discrimination of a novel object or a novel odor from a familia...

Ongoing debate surrounds the capacity and characteristics of the focus of attention. The present study investigates whether a pattern of larger recency effects and smaller primacy effects reported in previous working memory studies is specific to task conditions used in those studies, or generalizes across manipulations of task-demand. Two experiments varied task-demands by requiring participan...

Step One – DNA sample preparation; Step Two – Proprietary process to load DNA sample onto beads; Step Three – Sequencing DNA on Genome Sequencer FLX instrument; and Step Four –Analysis of the genome

In this special issue of The Open Neuroendocrinology Journal, the reader will find reviewed some of the hottest topics in the field of Neuroendocrine-immune interactions, with emphasis on the work performed by Mexican Scientists in the field, celebrating the launching of The Mexican Society of Neuroimmunoendocrinology. Cabrera-Muñoz et al., describe the role of progesterone (P4) in the infectio...