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    "pk": 31767,
    "title": "Recency and Context: An Environmental Analysis of Memory",
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    "abstract": "Central to the rational analysis of m e m o r y is the\nproposal that memory's sensitivity to statistical\nstructure in the environment enables it to\noptimally estimate the odds that a m e m o r y trace\nwill be needed n o w (Anderson, 1990). These\nodds are based on (1) the pattern of prior use of\nthe m e m o r y (e.g., h o w recently it has been\nneeded) and (2) the similarity of the current\ncontext to the previous contexts in which it has\nbeen needed. W e have analyzed three sources of\ninformational demand in the environment: (1)\nspeech to children; (2) word usage in front page\nheadlines; and (3) the daily distribution of\nauthors of electronic mail. W e found that the\nfactors that govern m e m o r y performance,\nincluding recency, also predict the odds that an\nitem (e.g., a word or author) will be encountered\nnow. Here w e tested a basic prediction the theory\nmakes about the independence between context\nand recency in the environment by extending our\nprevious analysis of recency in the N e w York\nTimes. Though the results of four behavioral\nexperiment were inconsistent with this\nindependence assumption, the combination of\nthe rational and environmental analyses were able\nto account for 9 4 % of the variance in these\nexperiments.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Submitted Presentations",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Lael",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Schooler",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "John",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Anderson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1993-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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