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In the present research, we produce a coherent account of the storage and retrieval processes in short- and long-term event memory, and long-term knowledge, that produce response accuracy and response time in a wide variety of conditions in our studies of recognition memory. Two to nine pictures are studied sequentially followed by a target or foil test picture in four conditions used in Nosofsky et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47, 316–342, (2021) and in our new paradigm: VM: target and foil responses to a given stimulus change from trial to trial; CM: the responses do not change from trial to trial; AN: every trial uses new stimuli; MIXED: combinations of VM, CN, and AN occur on each trial. In the new paradigm a given picture is equally often tested as old or new, but only in CM is the response key the same and learnable. Our model has components that have appeared in a variety of prior accounts, including learning and familiarity, but are given support by our demonstration that accuracy and response time data from a large variety of conditions can be predicted by these processes acting together, with parameter values that largely are unchanged. A longer version of this article, containing information not found here due to space, is available online https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h8msp. The avalibility of the data (supplement materials), info and link is attached at the end section (https://psyarxiv.com/h8msp.).
Keywords Short term and long term memory · Recognition · Learning · Memory models
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This research aims to show how the varied processes of storage in and retrieval from both short- and long-term memory work together to allow memory to operate. The goal is not to test individual hypotheses but rather to produce a comprehensive account, to demonstrate that the many processes of memory working together can explain the primary accuracy and response time results from short-term recognition studies. The participant studies a short sequentially presented list of pictures and decides whether a test picture had been on that list ('target'), or had not ('foil'). The lists varied in length from 2 to 9 in the three studies analyzed in this report. There were four primary conditions: 'Varied Mapping' (VM): target and...