A short-term perceptual priming account of spacing effects in explicit cued-memory tasks for unfamiliar stimuli

• Published in: European journal of cognitive psychology Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 387 - 402
• Main Authors: Mammarella, Nicola, Avons, S. E., Russo, Riccardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Psychology Press Ltd 01.05.2004
• Subjects: Attention; Encoding; Memory; Nonsense Words; Perception; Priming; Printed Materials; Semantic Processing; Word Recognition

Memory for repeated items improves when presentations are spaced during study. This effect is found in explicit memory tasks using different types of material, different experimental paradigms, and in different subject populations. Two experiments are described where the spacing effect was assessed...