Contiguity in episodic memory

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Abstract

Contiguity is one of the major predictors of recall dynamics in human episodic memory. But there are many competing theories of how the memory system gives rise to contiguity. Here we provide a set of benchmark findings for which any such theory should account. These benchmarks are drawn from a review of the existing literature as well as analyses of both new and archival data. They include 34 distinct findings on how various factors including individual and group differences, task parameters, and type of stimuli influence the magnitude of the contiguity effect. We will see that contiguity is observed in a range of tasks including recognition, paired associates, and autobiographical recall and across a range of time scales including minutes, days, weeks, and years. The broad pattern of data point toward a theory in which contiguity arises from fundamental memory mechanisms that encode and search an approximately time scale invariant representation of temporal distance.

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Healey, M. K., Long, N. M., & Kahana, M. J. (2019, June 15). Contiguity in episodic memory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. Springer Science and Business Media, LLC. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1537-3

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