Davis Orin C, Geller Aaron S, Rizzuto Daniel S, Kahana Michael J
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2008 Feb;15(1):64-9. doi: 10.3758/pbr.15.1.64.
Although much is known about the factors that influence the acquisition and retention of individual paired associates, the existence of temporally defined associations spanning multiple pairs has not been demonstrated. We report two experiments in which subjects studied randomly paired nouns for a subsequent cued recall test. When subjects recalled nontarget items, their intrusions tended to come from nearby pairs. This across-pair contiguity effect was graded, spanning noncontiguously studied word pairs. The existence of such long-range temporally defined associations lends further support to contextual-retrieval models of episodic association.
尽管我们对影响个体配对联想学习与记忆的因素已了解甚多，但跨越多个配对的、具有时间界定的联想是否存在尚未得到证实。我们报告了两项实验，实验中让受试者学习随机配对的名词，随后进行线索回忆测试。当受试者回忆非目标项目时，他们的错误回忆往往来自相邻的配对。这种跨配对的邻近效应是渐变的，涵盖了非连续学习的单词对。这种远距离的、具有时间界定的联想的存在，为情景联想的情境检索模型提供了进一步的支持。
