Stone J V, Hunkin N M, Hornby A
Department of Psychology, Sheffield University, Sheffield S10 2TP, UK.
Nature. 2001 Nov 8;414(6860):167-8. doi: 10.1038/35102676.
Long after a new language has been learned and forgotten, relearning a few words seems to trigger the recall of other words. Neural-network models indicate that this form of spontaneous recovery may result from the storage of distributed representations, which are thought to mediate human memory. Here we use a psychomotor learning task to show that a corresponding effect of spontaneous memory recovery occurs in human subjects.
