Brown Gordon D A, Morin Caroline, Lewandowsky Stephan
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2006 Aug;13(4):717-23. doi: 10.3758/bf03193986.
Is memory temporally organized? According to temporal distinctiveness models of memory, temporally isolated items should be better remembered than temporally crowded items in free recall tasks. Here, we tested this class of model by varying the temporal isolation of items either predictably (Experiment 1) or unpredictably (Experiment 2) in a free recall task. In both experiments, item recall probability increased as a function of the temporal gaps both before and after the item. The results are taken as support for temporal distinctiveness models of memory, in which items are represented and recalled in terms of their positions along a temporal dimension.
记忆是按照时间来组织的吗？根据记忆的时间独特性模型，在自由回忆任务中，时间上孤立的项目应该比时间上密集的项目更容易被记住。在这里，我们通过在自由回忆任务中可预测地（实验1）或不可预测地（实验2）改变项目的时间隔离来测试这类模型。在两个实验中，项目回忆概率均随着项目前后时间间隔的增加而增加。这些结果被视为对记忆时间独特性模型的支持，在该模型中，项目是根据它们在时间维度上的位置来表征和回忆的。
