%0 Journal Article
%T Recognition memory for pictures as a function of poststimulus interval: an empirical clarification of existing literature
%J Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition
%D 1983
%A Proctor, Robert W.
%V 9
%N 2
%P 256-262
%X Shaffer and Shiffrin (1972) found no effect of the duration of a blank poststimulus interval on recognition memory for visual scenes. The majority of subsequent studies, however, have found a positive relationship between interval duration and recognition accuracy. The present experiments were conducted to clarify these contradictory outcomes. Experiment 1 determined that Shaffer and Shiffrin's results are replicable with the method that they used in which stimulus durations and poststimulus-interval durations vary randomly within the study list. Experiments 2-3 showed that this random intermixing of durations is the critical factor that results in poststimulus interval having no effect. The results were interpreted in terms of a voluntary rehearsal process that is abandoned when there is uncertainty regarding the time of onset and offset of the stimuli.<p /><p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I American Psychological Association
%@ 0278-7393
%U http://dx.doi.org/