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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychon Bull Rev. 2019 Jun;26(3):699–720. doi: 10.3758/s13423-018-1537-3

Table 1.

References for benchmark contiguity effects.

Effect Originally reported in Page in current paper
1. Temporal Contiguity in free recall Kahana (1996) 3
2. Forward asymmetry Kahana (1996) 4
3. Higher for early and late output positions Kahana (1996) 4
4. Consistent across serial positions Current paper 4
5. Compound cuing Lohnas & Kahana (2014) 5
6. Fluctuations in efficiency of encoding Current paper 5
7. Consistency across individuals Healey & Kahana (2014) 7
8. Changes across the lifespan Kahana et al. (2002) 7
9. Personality and clinical variables Polyn et al. (2015);Pajkossy et al. (2017) 7
10. Increases with task experience Current paper 8
11. Positive correlation with memory ability Sederberg et al. (2010) 8
12. Positive correlation with IQ Healey et al. (2014) 8
13. Larger for auditory presentation Current paper 9
14. Independent of recall modality Current paper 9
15. Larger for short lists Current paper 9
16. Robust to very fast presentation rates Howard (2017) 10
17. Robust to very slow presentation rates Nguyen & McDaniel (2015) 10
18. Approximate time-scale invariance Howard & Kahana (1999) 10
19. Reduced in orthographically distinct lists McDaniel et al. (2011) 11
20. Interacts with emotional valance Siddiqui & Unsworth (2011) 12
21. Present when items vary in assigned value Stefanidi & Brewer (2015) 12
22. Robust to variation in stimuli complexity Nguyen & McDaniel (2015) 13
23. Dual-modality lists Cortis Mack et al. (2018) 13
24. Categorized lists Polyn et al. (2011) 14
25. Temporal/semantic competition Current paper 14
26. Encoding task manipulations Long & Kahana (2017) 15
27. Mnemonic strategies Bouffard et al. (2018) 16
28. Incidental encoding Nairne et al. (2017); Healey (2018) 17
29. Contiguity in serial recall errors Klein et al. (2005) 18
30. Compound cuing in recognition Schwartz et al. (2005) 18
31. Contiguity in paired associates intrusions Davis et al. (2008) 19
32. Contiguity in prior list institutions Zaromb et al. (2006) 20
33. Across-list contiguity in final free recall Howard et al. (2008); Unsworth (2008) 20
34. Contiguity outside the lab Moreton & Ward (2010); Uitvlugt & Healey (in press) 22