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Published on: November 14, 2018
Effects of the time dimension and presentation on incidental memory
1Department of Psychology, Nara University of Education, Takabatake-cho, Nara-City 630-8528, Japan. htoyota@nara-edu.ac.jp
Abstract:
Undergraduates were presented targets on two occasions, and each time they were asked to choose one of two alternatives (past or future) associated with the targets in the orienting task, followed by an unexpected free recall. For the pleasant targets, the spaced presentation led to a better recall than the massed presentation for both past and future time. However, for unpleasant targets, the spacing effect was found in recall of targets associated with the past but the effect was not observed in recall of targets associated with the future. These results were interpreted as indicating that the quantity and the quality of the episodes associated with the targets were processed differently as a function of emotional attribute and time dimension.
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