TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1983//
TI  - Recognition memory for pictures as a function of poststimulus interval: an empirical clarification of existing literature
JO  - Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition
A1  - Proctor, Robert W.
SP  - 256
EP  - 262
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
N2  - 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> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0278-7393
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -