@misc{cogprints8719, volume = {40}, title = {Recall termination in free recall}, author = {J. F. Miller and Christoph T. Weidemann and M. J. Kahana}, year = {2012}, pages = {540--550}, journal = {Memory \& Cognition}, url = {http://cogprints.org/8719/}, abstract = {Although much is known about the dynamics of memory search in the free recall task, relatively little is known about the factors related to recall termination. Rean- alyzing individual trial data from 14 prior studies (1,079 participants in 28,015 trials) and defining termination as occurring when a final response is followed by a long nonresponse interval, we observed that termination proba- bility increased throughout the recall period and that retriev- al was more likely to terminate following an error than following a correct response. Among errors, termination probability was higher following prior-list intrusions and repetitions than following extralist intrusions. To verify that this pattern of results can be seen in a single study, we report a new experiment in which 80 participants contributed recall data from a total of 9,122 trials. This experiment replicated the pattern observed in the aggregate analysis of the prior studies. } }