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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Memory Research

Background:

  • Theoretical debates persist regarding human memory explanation.
  • Item-memory judgments present empirical phenomena like list strength effect, strength-based mirror effect, and output interference.
  • The Retrieving Effectively from Memory (REM) model is a key theoretical contender.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address limitations of the current REM model in explaining source-memory judgments.
  • To propose and evaluate an extended REM model incorporating local-matching for source judgments.
  • To investigate the effects of list strength and output interference on item and source memory.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments manipulated relative source-memory strength.
  • Evaluated model predictions on list strength effect and strength-based mirror effect in source memory.
  • Assessed output interference effects on item and source memory using a novel experiment and existing datasets.

Main Results:

  • Observed a null list strength effect and a strength-based mirror effect for source memory.
  • Found output interference significantly impacted item-memory accuracy.
  • Demonstrated a null or negligible impact of output interference on source-memory judgments.

Conclusions:

  • The extended REM model successfully accounts for source-memory judgments.
  • Results support REM's core differentiation principle for both item and source information.
  • The proposed local-matching concept enhances the REM model's explanatory power for memory phenomena.