ABSTRACT
In recall tasks, increased levels of arousal soon after presentation time leads to short-term performance that is contradictory to standard memory models. Despite the fact that long-term recall is excellent in such situations, short-term recall is poor, worse than in the long-term case. This article presents a model, based upon Hebb’s cell assembly construct, to account for this puzzling data. The system, called MultiTrace, has previously been used to model a lexical priming task and was adapted with only minor changes for this task.
