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A Context Maintenance and Retrieval Model of Organizational Processes in Free Recall

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Review, January 2009
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Title
A Context Maintenance and Retrieval Model of Organizational Processes in Free Recall
Published in
Psychological Review, January 2009
DOI 10.1037/a0014420
Pubmed ID
Authors

Sean M. Polyn, Kenneth A. Norman, Michael J. Kahana

Abstract

The authors present the context maintenance and retrieval (CMR) model of memory search, a generalized version of the temporal context model of M. W. Howard and M. J. Kahana (2002a), which proposes that memory search is driven by an internally maintained context representation composed of stimulus-related and source-related features. In the CMR model, organizational effects (the tendency for related items to cluster during the recall sequence) arise as a consequence of associations between active context elements and features of the studied material. Semantic clustering is due to longstanding context-to-item associations, whereas temporal clustering and source clustering are both due to associations formed during the study episode. A behavioral investigation of the three forms of organization provides data to constrain the CMR model, revealing interactions between the organizational factors. Finally, the authors discuss the implications of CMR for their understanding of a broad class of episodic memory phenomena and suggest ways in which this theory may guide exploration of the neural correlates of memory search.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 11 3%
United Kingdom 6 1%
Canada 3 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Unknown 395 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 125 30%
Researcher 74 18%
Student > Master 49 12%
Student > Bachelor 33 8%
Professor 23 5%
Other 62 15%
Unknown 56 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 183 43%
Neuroscience 58 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 5%
Computer Science 21 5%
Social Sciences 11 3%
Other 39 9%
Unknown 88 21%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 121. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 October 2022.
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#344,467
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Outputs from Psychological Review
#60
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#1,011
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#1
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