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The recency effect is the tendency for individuals without neurological impairment to show enhanced memory for items presented at the end of a list relative to items presented in the middle of the list. Immediately after presentation, items presented at the end of a list can be retrieved from short-term or primary memory. The recency effect, therefore, is characterized by features of short-term memory ability such as susceptibility to interference and rapid decay. The recency effect is part of the larger serial position effect.
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Troyer, A.K. (2017). Recency Effect. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_1146-2
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