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Primacy model  

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  • Connectionist model of immediate serial recall and the phonological loop (Page & Norris, 1998). Items are activated according to a primacy gradient: the first item in the list is the most active, and the activation of other items in the list gradually decreases with their serial position. The decay of an item's trace is rapid after activation, unless a rehearsal mechanism maintains its original activation. At the time of serial recall, the first item in the list with the greatest activation is recalled first and then suppressed. The other items are then recalled sequentially using the same principle.

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  • • Page, M. P. A., & Norris, D. (1998). The primacy model: A new model of immediate serial recall. Psychological Review, 105(4), 761-781. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.105.4.761-781

    [Study type: simulation study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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