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SUBMITTER: van Kesteren MTR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6581004 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Kesteren Marlieke Tina Renée MTR de Vries Lianne L Meeter Martijn M
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) 20190617 7
According to several computational models, novel items can create a learning mode with dynamics favorable to new learning, and not to memory retrieval. In line with that idea, a new item in a recognition test has been found to create a bias toward calling subsequent items new as well. Here, we tested whether this bias, which we termed the afterglow effect, is indeed caused by a general learning mode, or is caused by perceptual overlap between preceding and current items. In two experiments, we s ...[more]