The Subtlety of Distinctiveness

Hunt, R. R. (1995). The Subtlety of Distinctiveness: What von Restorff Really Did. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2(1), 105-112.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1995

DOI

10.3758/bf03214414

Link

https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03214414

Cited from

psychology

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Salience
  • In memory and learning, distinctive or surprising events are preferentially encoded, the isolation effect.

    This sourceReviews the isolation (von Restorff) effect: distinctive items in a uniform list are preferentially encoded and recalled.

Verification

This reference passed the adversarial substantiation pipeline: it was checked to exist and to support the claim it is attached to. See how references were verified.

Registry ID ref:3ade3d9d6bb9 · see in the full table