argue that the temporal context model (TCM; ) cannot explain non-monotonicities in the contiguity effect seen at extreme lags. However TCM actually predicts that these non-monotonicities to the extent that end-of-list context persists as a retrieval cue during recall, and to the extent that end-of-list context generates a recency effect. We show that the observed non-monotonicity in the contiguity effect interacts with the recency effect as predicted by TCM. In conditions that exhibit strong recency, such as immediate and continual distractor free recall, one observes more prominent non-monotonicities in the contiguity effect than in conditions that attenuate recency, such as delayed free recall. Rather than posing a challenge to the model, the non-monotonicities in the contiguity effect at extreme lags and the interactions between recency and contiguity result from the role of end-of-list context as a retrieval cue in TCM.
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