%0 Journal Article
%T Two retrievals from a single cue: A bottleneck persists across episodic and semantic memory
%A Franziska Orscheschek
%A Tilo Strobach
%A Timothy Rickard
%A Torsten Schubert
%J Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
%@ 1747-0226
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1747021818776818
%X There is evidence in the literature that two retrievals from long-term memory cannot occur in parallel. To date, however, that work has explored only the case of two retrievals from newly acquired episodic memory. These studies demonstrated a retrieval bottleneck even after dual-retrieval practice. That retrieval bottleneck may be a global property of long-term memory retrieval, or it may apply only to the case of two retrievals from episodic memory. In the current experiments, we explored whether that apparent dual-retrieval bottleneck applies to the case of one retrieval from episodic memory and one retrieval from highly overlearned semantic memory. Across three experiments, subjects learned to retrieve a left or right keypress response form a set of 14 unique word cues (e.g., black¡ªright keypress). In addition, they learned a verbal response which involved retrieving the antonym of the presented cue (e.g., black¡ª¡°white¡±). In the dual-retrieval condition, subjects had to retrieve both the keypress response and the antonym word. The results suggest that the retrieval bottleneck is superordinate to specific long-term memory systems and holds across different memory components. In addition, the results support the assumption of a cue-level response chunking account of learned retrieval parallelism
%K Cued retrieval
%K dual-retrieval practice
%K chunked retrieval
%K bottleneck models
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1747021818776818