The effects of interference tasks on recency in the free recall of action events - PubMed

• PMID: 2616696
• DOI: 10.1007/BF00309145

The effects of interference tasks on recency in the free recall of action events

R L Cohen. Psychol Res. 1989.

Abstract

Lists of verbal instructions were read aloud and each was enacted either by the subject (SPTs) or by the experimenter (EPTs). In Experiment 1 free recall was made of lists of SPTs and EPTs either immediately after presentation, after an empty 20-s delay interval, or after a 20-s delay interval filled with backward counting. The recall of recency items was unaffected by the empty delay interval, but was somewhat reduced by the counting task. In Experiment 2 free recall was made of lists of SPTs and EPTs either immediately after presentation or after a delay that was filled with a single SPT or a single EPT, 20 s in length. The recency effect evident in the immediate-recall condition was virtually wiped out in the delay conditions, irrespective of whether the delay task matched those in the free-recall list or not. These results are discussed in terms of the mnemonic similarity of the two types of action event.

Similar articles

• Recency effect in anterograde amnesia: evidence for distinct memory stores underlying enhanced retrieval of terminal items in immediate and delayed recall paradigms.

  Carlesimo GA, Marfia GA, Loasses A, Caltagirone C. Carlesimo GA, et al. Neuropsychologia. 1996 Mar;34(3):177-84. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(95)00100-x. Neuropsychologia. 1996. PMID: 8868275 Clinical Trial.

• Developmental differences in episodic memory across school ages: evidence from enacted events performed by self and others.

  Badinlou F, Kormi-Nouri R, Mousavi Nasab SM, Knopf M. Badinlou F, et al. Memory. 2017 Jan;25(1):84-94. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2015.1126607. Epub 2015 Dec 29. Memory. 2017. PMID: 26711845

• The item-order hypothesis reconsidered: the role of order information in free recall.

  Engelkamp J, Jahn P, Seiler KH. Engelkamp J, et al. Psychol Res. 2003 Nov;67(4):280-90. doi: 10.1007/s00426-002-0118-1. Epub 2003 Feb 25. Psychol Res. 2003. PMID: 14634815

• The conditional-recency dissociation is confounded with nominal recency: should unitary models of memory still be devaluated?

  Moran R, Goshen-Gottstein Y. Moran R, et al. Psychon Bull Rev. 2014 Apr;21(2):332-43. doi: 10.3758/s13423-013-0508-y. Psychon Bull Rev. 2014. PMID: 24030471 Review.

• Memory for action events: a new field of research.

  Engelkamp J, Zimmer HD. Engelkamp J, et al. Psychol Res. 1989;51(4):153-7. doi: 10.1007/BF00309142. Psychol Res. 1989. PMID: 2694204 Review. No abstract available.

Cited by

• The Role of Item-Specific Information for the Retrieval Awareness of Performed Actions.

  Li G, Wang L. Li G, et al. Front Psychol. 2018 Aug 14;9:1325. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01325. eCollection 2018. Front Psychol. 2018. PMID: 30154741 Free PMC article.

• Memory of self-performed tasks: self-performing during recognition.

  Engelkamp J, Zimmer HD, Mohr G, Sellen O. Engelkamp J, et al. Mem Cognit. 1994 Jan;22(1):34-9. doi: 10.3758/bf03202759. Mem Cognit. 1994. PMID: 8035683

• The effects of language and emotionality of stimuli on vocabulary learning.

  Frances C, de Bruin A, Duñabeitia JA. Frances C, et al. PLoS One. 2020 Oct 7;15(10):e0240252. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240252. eCollection 2020. PLoS One. 2020. PMID: 33027296 Free PMC article.

• The output monitoring of performed actions: What can we learn from "recall-recognition" performance?

  Li G, Wang L, Han Y. Li G, et al. Cogn Process. 2019 Feb;20(1):45-53. doi: 10.1007/s10339-018-0889-y. Epub 2018 Oct 26. Cogn Process. 2019. PMID: 30367441

• Enactment versus observation: item-specific and relational processing in goal-directed action sequences (and lists of single actions).

  Schult J, von Stülpnagel R, Steffens MC. Schult J, et al. PLoS One. 2014 Jun 13;9(6):e99985. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099985. eCollection 2014. PLoS One. 2014. PMID: 24927279 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

References

Publication types

MeSH terms

LinkOut - more resources

• Medical

  • MedlinePlus Health Information