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57th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Tilburg, Netherlands, 19 - 22 July 2024, pp.1, (Summary Text)
The contiguity effect is the finding that when an item is recalled, the
next item to be recalled is inclined to come from neighbouring study
positions to the position of the just recalled item. In the recall
literature, the contiguity effect is observed with a forward asymmetry.
Various models have been developed to account for the contiguity effect.
Kılıç et al. (2013) offered two classes of models: Causal models such
as the Temporal Context Model (TCM) suggest that when an item is
recalled, it causes another item to be recalled due to the recalled
items’ study context being incorporated into the test context, whereas
according to non-causal models, the context in the study changes
independently of the items and this study context is reiterated during
the test phase. Kılıç et al. (2013) employed the probed recall task to
disrupt this supposed reiteration. They observed a contiguity effect but
not the forward asymmetry, which was attributed to low recall
performance. In the current study, we aimed to increase the recall
performance to decide whether the lack of asymmetry indicates the
contribution of non-causal mechanisms or low performance. Therefore, the
probed recall task was utilized along with overt rehearsal and sentence
generation tasks during the study phase to increase recall performance.
At the test, probe words were given and another word from the list of
the probe words was requested. Conditional Response Probability (CRP)
analysis revealed within and between-list contiguity effects, but the
results did not show a forward asymmetry.