Models of free recall describe initiation as a decision-making process in which items compete to be retrieved. Recently, Osth and Farrell (Psychological Review, 126, 578–609, 2019) applied evidence accumulation models complete RT distributions serial positions participants’ first recalls recall, resulted some novel conclusions about primacy recency effects. Specifically, the results modeling fa...

Immediately recalling a witnessed event can increase people's susceptibility to later postevent misinformation. But this retrieval-enhanced suggestibility (RES) effect has been shown only when the initial recall test included specific questions that reappeared on the final test. Moreover, it is unclear whether this phenomenon is affected by the centrality of event details. These limitations mak...

To test theoretical predictions about the role of meaning connections in false memory, the effects of semantic cues and list repetition on children’s false memories were evaluated across early childhood to midadolescence using the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm. True recall and false recall increased from 7 to 13 years. Study list repetition increased true recall of list words with the...