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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Memory Research

Background:

  • Episodic memories automatically encode and retrieve temporal order information.
  • Strategic control processes modulate the influence of temporal information on recall.
  • The precise timing (encoding vs. retrieval) of these control processes remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether strategic control processes influencing memory recall operate primarily during encoding or retrieval.
  • To independently manipulate encoding and retrieval strategies to isolate their effects on memory organization.

Main Methods:

  • Undergraduate participants studied two word lists under varying strategic instructions (temporal vs. semantic focus).
  • Encoding and retrieval strategies were manipulated independently.
  • A strategy switch manipulation occurred before recalling the second list (test strategy).

Main Results:

  • Temporal contiguity was present across all conditions, even when discouraged.
  • Initial encoding strategy did not significantly affect temporal or semantic organization.
  • A semantic retrieval strategy significantly reduced temporal contiguity and increased semantic contiguity.

Conclusions:

  • Variations in temporal and semantic contiguity during recall are primarily driven by control processes active at retrieval.
  • Retrieval strategies, rather than encoding strategies, exert a stronger influence on memory organization.