Self-paced recall in Broadbent's split-span memory task shows particular temporal patterns associated with different strategies of report. Accuracy is a decreasing function of the interval between presentation of an item and report of that item irrespective of report strategy. Presentation rate appears to affect the asymptote of this function but not its rate of decline. Results are related to an interaction between strategies of response selection and decay of information from memory.
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