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The effect of long-term working memory through personalization applied to free recall : Uncurbing the primacy-effect enthusiasm

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In this study, a personalization method (Guida, Tardieu, & Nicolas, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21: 862-896 2009) was applied to a free-recall task. Fifteen pairs of words, composed of an object and a location, were presented to 93 participants, who had to mentally associate each pair and subsequently recall the objects. A 30-s delay was introduced on half of the trials, the presentation rate was manipulated (5 or 10 s per item), and verbal and visuospatial working memory tests were administered to test for their effects on the serial curve. Two groups were constituted: a personalized group, for whom the locations were well-known places on their university campus, and a nonpersonalized group, for whom the locations did not refer to known places. Since personalization putatively operationalizes long-term working memory (Ericsson & Kintsch, Psychological Review, 102: 211-245 1995)-namely, the capacity to store information reliably and rapidly in long-term memory-and if we take a dual-store approach to memory, the personalization advantage would be expected to be greater for pre-recency than for recency items. Overall, the results were compatible with long-term working memory theory. They contribute to validating the personalization method as a methodology to characterize the contribution of long-term memory storage to performance in working memory tasks.

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halshs-01428585 , version 1 (06-01-2017)

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Alessandro Guida, Doriane Gras, Y. Noel, Olivier Le Bohec, Christophe Quaireau, et al.. The effect of long-term working memory through personalization applied to free recall : Uncurbing the primacy-effect enthusiasm. Memory and Cognition, 2013, 41, pp.571-587. ⟨10.3758/s13421-012-0284-3⟩. ⟨halshs-01428585⟩
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