Ever since the classic work of Ebbinghaus (1885/1964), the default view in scientific psychology has been that memory declines over time. Less well-known clinical and laboratory traditions suggest, however, that memory can also increase over time. Ballard (1913) demonstrated that, actually, memory simultaneously increases and decreases over time…

If an attentional cue affects retroactive interference, perhaps a similar mechanism underlies release from proactive interference. This study tested this hypothesis by inserting an attentional cue before the final trial in Wickens' paradigm. (Author/RK)

The recall of categories represented by varied versus repeated pictorial specimens was assessed with mixed and unmixed lists and with a control for the chance conjunction of particular subjects with particularly strong items when the items were varied. (Editor)

The present experiment was designed to test two alternative hypotheses of the roles of input order and semantic structure in determining the effect of blocked presentation and the general facilitation of recall. (Author)

The present experiments were directed to the general question of how grouped presentation affects recall and organization. (Author)

Previous work on recalling prose material can be criticized for its limited use of quantitative analysis and for neglecting the theoretical implications of the distinctions between verbatim and other forms of recall. Nine specially written passages used clauses and actual words to split reproduced material into verbatim, non-verbatim and intrusive…

Building on 2 previous studies (B. R. Ekstrand, 1967; B. R. Ekstrand, M. J. Sullivan, D. F. Parker, & J. N. West, 1971), the authors present 2 experiments that were aimed at characterizing the role of retroactive interference in sleep-associated declarative memory consolidation. Using an A-B, A-C paradigm with lists of word pairs in Experiment 1,…

These experiments demonstrated that it is possible to produce induced amnesia using a loud sound as the critical item when all other items are presented at normal conversational levels. (Author/RK)

Authors attempted to measure the effect of phonetic similarity on the ease and speed with which pairs of words are found in memory. (Author/RK)

Subjects asked to recall the 20 items and (not necessarily in) their order on a list took 34 percent fewer trials to learn the list to three perfect trials than did subjects who were asked just to recall the items. (Editor)

This study was designed to investigate the effect of individual differences in habitually preferred number of categories (PNC) on the form and interpretation of the category-recall function. (Editor)

The 90 individually run subjects learned and were tested for their free recall of a conceptually unrelated hierarchy of words, a randomly arranged, or a properly arranged conceptual hierarchy, under instructions to process the words either by generating hierarchical associations among them or by copying them. (Editor)

Two experiments examined the effect on recall of a response prefix, a redundant element emitted after the presentation of a memory series but before recall was completed. (Editor)

Article described experiments that investigated the immediate free recall of homogeneous lists of items and found that deep-structure complexity had little effect when imageability was controlled. (Editor/RK)