Although much is known about the dynamics of memory search in the free recall task, relatively little is known about the factors related to recall termination. Reanalyzing individual trial data from 14 prior studies (1,079 participants in 28,015 trials) and defining termination as occurring when a final response is followed by a long nonresponse interval, we observed that termination probabilit...

(STM) buffer has played a central role in theories of memory. Indeed, such a buffer is an essential component of computational models that account for quantitative data in tasks of immediate and delayed free recall, including the search of associative memory model (SAM; Raaijmakers & Shiffrin, 1981; see also Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968; Kahana, 1996; Waugh & Norman, 1965) and the adaptive control...

Five experiments examined the effects of environmental context on recall and recognition. In Experiment I, variability of input environments produced higher free recall performance than unchanged input environments. Experiment 2 showed improvements in cued recall when storage and test contexts matched, using a paradigm that unconfounded the variables of context mismatching and context change. I...

The ability to spontaneously recall recently learned information is a fundamental mnemonic activity of daily life, but has received little study using functional neuroimaging. We developed a functional MRI (fMRI) paradigm to study regional brain activity during encoding that predicts free recall. In this event-related fMRI study, ten lists of fourteen pictures of common objects were shown to he...

The purpose of this study was to compare Kanji items with Kana ones in terms of the free recall performance, and to investigate the effect of orthography and imagery on memory. Two experiments were conducted in incidental learning paradigm, in which subjects were instructed to read aloud each stimulus item. In Experiment 1, an immediate recall test was used. Number of correct free recall for lo...