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Siegel, Lynn L.; Kahana, Michael J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Repeating an item in a list benefits recall performance, and this benefit increases when the repetitions are spaced apart (Madigan, 1969; Melton, 1970). Retrieved context theory incorporates 2 mechanisms that account for these effects: contextual variability and study-phase retrieval. Specifically, if an item presented at position "i" is…
Descriptors: Memory, Recall (Psychology), Context Effect, Cues