Negative Effects of Recency Even following Recall after Filled Delay

Abstract

It has been suggested that in a second unexpected recall information can only come from a longer term score which the more recent items have less chance of reaching and this leads to a negative effect of within-list recency for this second recall session. Two experiments showed a negative effect of recency even when recent items seemed likely to have come from long-term store because initial recall had been delayed. This favours an interpretation of recency in terms of ordinal retrieval starting, where there is negative recency, more often with the first item and working forward.