A memory phenomenon centered on the stage at which previously encoded information is brought back to conscious awareness, covering successful recall and recognition as well as documented failures and near-failures of retrieval, such as a word or memory that feels just out of reach. This group gathers the retrieval-stage memory phenomena recorded for this atlas, drawn from the standard cognitive psychology distinction between encoding, storage and retrieval, including cue-dependent recall, forgetting, recognition and closely related anomalous retrieval experiences.
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Originating WorkDonald Thomson and Endel Tulving, encoding specificity principle (1970s) 1 Retrieval Effects
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It was introduced by Thomson and Tulving who suggested that contextual information is encoded with memories which affect the retrieval process.
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