ABSTRACT

Experimental Evidence. Successive Comparison and the Time Errors. The Functional Effect of the Gradient. Von Restorff’s Experiments: The Effect of Trace-Aggregation on Recall and Recognition. The Experiments by Wulf and His Successors: Changes Within Individual Traces. Theory of Traces Resumed: Insufficiency of Our Hypotheses. Acquisition of Skills. Reorganization in Perception. Learning a New Relation. Traces and the Ego. Forgetting. The Availability of Traces