Michael Kahana
Michael Kahana appears on this site as co-author of the 2018 paper on a spacing account of negative recency in final free recall.
Who they are
The work of Michael Kahana reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Negative Recency.
Key papers
Kuhn, J. R., Lohnas, L. J., & Kahana, M. J. (2018). A spacing account of negative recency in final free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(8), 1180-1185. What it reports: Replicated negative recency within lists in final free recall alongside the usual advantage for recent lists, and proposed a spacing account of the pattern.
Key ideas
Negative Recency: In final free recall, items from the end of a list are recalled less well than items from the middle.
Sources
- Kuhn, J. R., Lohnas, L. J., & Kahana, M. J. (2018). A spacing account of negative recency in final free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(8), 1180-1185.