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The notion that verbal short-term memory tasks, such as serial recall, make use of information in long-term as well as in short-term memory is instantiated in many models of these tasks. Such models incorporate a process in which degraded traces retrieved from a short-term store are reconstructed, or redintegrated (Schweickert, 1993), through the use of information in long-term memory. This article presents a conceptual and mathematical model of this process based on a class of item-response theory models. It is demonstrated that this model provides a better fit to three sets of data than does the multinomial processing tree model of redintegration (Schweickert, 1993) and that a number of conceptual accounts of serial recall can be related to the parameters of the model.
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This research was supported by Australian Research Council Grant DP0663642 to the first author.
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Roodenrys, S., Miller, L.M. A constrained Rasch model of trace redintegration in serial recall. Memory & Cognition 36, 578–587 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.36.3.578
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