Offloading memory: serial position effects.
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Despite the long history and pervasiveness of cognitive offloading as a memory strategy, the memorial fate of offloaded in-formation is not well understood. Recent work has suggested that offloading information may engage similar mechanismsas instructions to forget (directed forgetting). Presently, we test this prediction by examining the serial position effectfor offloaded information. Previous research has demonstrated that forget instructions can eliminate the primacy effectwhile leaving an intact recency effect. Across two experiments, participants completed multiple free recall trials using anexternal aid and then a final recall trial without the external aid. We compared a group that was expecting to use the aid forthe final trial (offloading) with a group that was not (no offloading). We found a memory impairment for offloaded itemsthat was characterized by a reduced primacy effect but intact recency effect, similar to what has been reported in researchon directed forgetting.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.061 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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