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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > distinctiveness effect > primary distinctiveness effect > von Restorff effect

Preferred term

von Restorff effect  

Definition

  • Better memory for a distinctive item compared to the other items. This item is distinctive according to its immediate context (e.g. a word written in red among words written in black).

Broader concept

Related concepts

Synonym(s)

  • isolation effect

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Chee, Q. W., & Goh, W. D. (2018). What explains the von Restorff effect? Contrasting distinctive processing and retrieval cue efficacy. Journal of Memory and Language, 99, 49–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2017.11.002

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Hunt, R. R. (1995). The subtlety of distinctiveness: What von Restorff really did. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2(1), 105–112. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03214414

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • MacLeod, C. M. (2020). Zeigarnik and von Restorff: The memory effects and the stories behind them. Memory & Cognition, 48(6), 1073–1088. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01033-5

    • Document type: historical study

    • Access: open

  • • Restorff, H. von. (1933). Über die Wirkung von Bereichsbildungen im Spurenfeld. Psychologische Forschung, 18(1), 299–342. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02409636

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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