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Research article summary:
Spacing effects in cued-memory tasks for unfamiliar faces and nonwords.
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Memory for repeated items improves as the interval between repetitions in a list increases (the spacing effect). This study investigated the spacing effect in recognition memory and in a frequency judgment task for unfamiliar target faces that were ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2002Dec
in Journal: Mem Cognit
(Language : eng)
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2002 Dec;30(8):1238-51
Spacing effects in cued-memory tasks for unfamiliar faces and nonwords.
Mammarella N, Russo R, Avons SE
University of Essex, Colchester, England.
Memory for repeated items improves as the interval between repetitions in a list increases (the spacing effect). This study investigated the spacing effect in recognition memory and in a frequency judgment task for unfamiliar target faces that were repeated in the same or in a different pose during incidental learning. Changing the pose between prime and probe trials reduced perceptual repetition priming in a structural discrimination task and also reduced the spacing effect in a subsequent unexpected recognition memory task. Three further experiments confirmed that the spacing effect inrecognition memory (Experiments 2 and 4) or frequency judgment (Experiment 3) was reduced when the pose was changed between repeated presentations at study. Similarly, with nonwords as targets (Experiment 5), changing the font between repeated occurrences of targets at study removed the spacing effect in a subsequent unexpected recognition memory test. These results are interpreted to support the view that short-term perceptual repetition priming underlies the spacing effect in explicit cued-memory tasks for unfamiliar nonsense material.
PMID : 12661855 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| Nicola | Mammarella | N |
| Riccardo | Russo | R |
| S E | Avons | SE |
Affiliation: University of Essex, Colchester, England.
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