Ohio State University, Department of Psychology, 1835 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Mem Cognit. 2010 Sep;38(6):689-99. doi: 10.3758/MC.38.6.689.
One way to study the associative processes at work during episodic memory is to examine the order of participant responses, which reveal the strong tendency to transition between temporally contiguous or semantically proximal items on the study list. Here, we assessed the correlation between participants' recall performance and their use of semantic and temporal associations to guide retrieval across nine delayed free recall studies. The size of the participants' temporal contiguity effects predicted their recall performance. When interpreted in terms of two models of episodic memory, these results suggest that participants who more effectively form and retrieve associations between items that occur nearby in time perform better on episodic recall tasks. Sample code may be downloaded as a supplement for this article from http://mc.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.
研究情景记忆中联想过程的一种方法是检查参与者反应的顺序，这揭示了在学习列表上的时间连续或语义上接近的项目之间进行转换的强烈倾向。在这里，我们评估了参与者的回忆表现与其使用语义和时间关联来指导九项延迟自由回忆研究中的检索之间的相关性。参与者的时间连续性效应的大小预测了他们的回忆表现。根据情景记忆的两个模型来解释这些结果表明，在时间上更有效地形成和检索附近项目之间的关联的参与者在情景回忆任务上表现更好。本文的补充材料可以从 http://mc.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental 下载示例代码。
