Retrieval of Information from Secondary Memory: A Review and New Findings.

摘要

Memory search was compared when the memorized items were either in primary or secondary memory. Distractor tasks were used to require secondary memory storage during a memory retrieval task. The additive effects of memory load and delay support the interpretation of separate retrieval and memory search processes. In a second experiment, event related potentials were used to examine the hypothesis that the increase in reaction time from primary to secondary memory was due to the insertion of a retrieval process prior to memory comparison. P300 latency data suggest that stimulus evaluation and response related processing are both affected by delay. Keywords: Brain evoked potentials, Motor responses, Human brain. (kr)