?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Dimensional+Distinctiveness+or+Interference+With+Recall+At+Five+Seconds+After+Stimulus+Presentation%3F&rft.creator=Tarnow%2C+Eugen&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Knoedler%2C+Hellwig+and+Neath+presented+measurements+of+the+recency-primacy+shift+in+which+memory+for+early+list+items+improves+and+memory+for+later+items+becomes+worse+as+the+retention+interval+between+study+and+test+increases.+The+authors+interpreted+the+data+to+support+the+Dimensional+Distinctiveness+model.++I+present+an+alternative+interpretation+of+their+data+in+terms+of+an+interference+model%2C+%C2%93Early+Interference+with+Recall%C2%94%2C+at+five+seconds+after+the+presentation+of+a+particular+list+item+and+show+that+this+interpretation+can+qualitatively+better+account+for+the+experimental+data.++Two+predictions+further+separate+the+two+models%3A++Dimensional+Distinctiveness+predicts+no+recency-primacy+shift+for+two-item+lists%2C+in+contrast+to+Early+Interference+With+Recall.++As+the+overall+time+scale+is+changed%2C+the+former+model+also+predicts+no+difference+in+recency+or+primacy+while+the+latter+shows+large+changes.&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2081%2F2%2Feif.html&rft.identifier=++Tarnow%2C+Eugen++(2002)+Dimensional+Distinctiveness+or+Interference+With+Recall+At+Five+Seconds+After+Stimulus+Presentation%3F++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2081%2F