The recency effect is the tendency to remember the most recently presented information best. For example, if you are trying to memorize a list of items, the recency effect means you are more likely to ...

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Neuroscientists have revealed that recency bias in working memory naturally leads to central tendency bias, the phenomenon where people's (and animals') judgements are biased towards the average of ...

The self-interference model is superior to DDM in several ways: First, t gives the correct qualitative results for the RPS (the sign change), not just the correct direction of change. Second, it gives ...