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Lewandowsky, Stephan; Brown, Gordon D. A.; Wright, Tarryn; Nimmo, Lisa M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
According to temporal distinctiveness models, items that are temporally isolated from their neighbors during list presentation are more distinct and thus should be recalled better. Event-based theories, by contrast, deny that time plays a role at encoding and predict no beneficial effect of temporal isolation, although they acknowledge that a…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Simulation, Cognitive Processes