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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lansner A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3758294 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20130830 8
The dynamic nature of human working memory, the general-purpose system for processing continuous input, while keeping no longer externally available information active in the background, is well captured in immediate free recall of supraspan word-lists. Free recall tasks produce several benchmark memory phenomena, like the U-shaped serial position curve, reflecting enhanced memory for early and late list items. To account for empirical data, including primacy and recency as well as contiguity ef ...[more]