Inter-event differences in action memory |
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Authors: | TORE HELSTRUP |
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Institution: | Department of General Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway |
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Abstract: | Two experiments examined the effect of verb-noun connectivity on recall of simple action phrases, under motor and nonmotor encoding conditions. Connectivity, measured by associative overlap and rated belongingness, was found to make a difference. High-connectivity pairs are better recalled than low-connectivity pairs. Primacy effects are absent with low-connectivity pairs, but generally present with high-connectivity pairs—irrespective of encoding conditions. Inter-item action phrase differences thus influence the effects studied in action memory research. The results were discussed in terms of strategic and nonstrategic conceptions of memory for actions. |
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Keywords: | Memory actions strategy serial position effects |
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