A context maintenance and retrieval model of organizational processes in free recall.
University of Pennsylvania · Princeton University
Abstract
The authors present the context maintenance and retrieval (CMR) model of memory search, a generalized version of the temporal context model of M. W. Howard and M. J. Kahana (2002a), which proposes that memory search is driven by an internally maintained context representation composed of stimulus-related and source-related features. In the CMR model, organizational effects (the tendency for related items to cluster during the recall sequence) arise as a consequence of associations between active context elements and features of the studied material. Semantic clustering is due to longstanding context-to-item associations, whereas temporal clustering and source clustering are both due to associations formed…
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3Topics & keywords
- Recall
- Psychology
- Cognitive psychology
- Episodic memory
- Context-dependent memory
- Cluster analysis
- Free recall
- Context (archaeology)