Learned interval time facilitates associate memory retrieval.
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SUBMITTER: van de Ven V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5362700 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
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Learned interval time facilitates associate memory retrieval.
van de Ven Vincent V Kochs Sarah S Smulders Fren F De Weerd Peter P
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) 20170315 4
The extent to which time is represented in memory remains underinvestigated. We designed a time paired associate task (TPAT) in which participants implicitly learned cue-time-target associations between cue-target pairs and specific cue-target intervals. During subsequent memory testing, participants showed increased accuracy of identifying matching cue-target pairs if the time interval during testing matched the implicitly learned interval. A control experiment showed that participants had no e ...[more]
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