Investigating category transitions and interresponse times in fluency tasks.

Semantic fluency tasks require participants to recall as many items as possible from a category (e.g., animals) within a fixed time. These tasks are known to produce heavy-tailed distributions of interresponse times (IRTs), a pattern also found in natural foraging. The present study examined whether...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 5; pp. 1731 - 1753
Main Authors:	Magaldino, Corey M., Amazeen, Eric L.
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jul2026
Subjects:	Task performance Psychology Analysis of variance Repeated measures design Conceptual models Descriptive statistics Semantic memory Reaction time Verbal behavior
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost