Primacy Effects in Nonspatial Recognition Memory in Rats
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2000
Department
Psychology
Abstract
The existence of primacy and recency effects in nonspatial recognition memory in rats was investigated using a nonmatching-to-sample task (namely, visual discrimination in a Y-maze). Although previous research has demonstrated recency effects in nonspatial tasks, evidence for a primacy effect in such tasks is equivocal. The current study evaluated nonspatial memory under conditions that have been found to optimize primacy effects. Significant primacy effects were found over all trials and also for the last six trials. Results are discussed in terms of identification of the optimal conditions for producing and detecting serial position effects in memory. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
Publication Title
Learning and Motivation
Volume
31
Issue
1
First Page
54
Last Page
66
Recommended Citation
Williams, B. M.,
McCoy, J. G.,
Kuczaj, S. A.
(2000). Primacy Effects in Nonspatial Recognition Memory in Rats. Learning and Motivation, 31(1), 54-66.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/4311