Redintegration and response suppression in serial recall: A dynamic network model

This article presents a dynamic network model of redintegration and respons e suppression. Redintegration is the process that disambiguates partially r etrieved memorial information into an overt response, and response suppress ion renders retrieved items temporarily unavailable for further report. Mos t models of serial recall assume the presence of both processes, but few ex plain how they are performed. Exploration of the network revealed that it c an predict recency in serial recall of lists of varying lengths, the patter n of the associated transposition, omission, intrusion, and repetition erro rs, and the temporal dynamics of retrieval. The network thus augments any e xisting model of serial recall that assumes a distributed vector representa tion but does not specify the processes underlying redintegration and respo nse suppression.