@Article{dbt_mods_00068759,
  author = 	{Rudolph, Matth{\"a}us
		and Rothermund, Klaus},
  title = 	{When does binding become learning, if it ever does? How sequences of stimulus--response combinations affect episodic retrieval in a color-word repetition paradigm},
  journal = 	{Psychonomic bulletin {\&} review: a journal of the Psychonomic Society},
  year = 	{2026},
  month = 	{Jan},
  day = 	{08},
  publisher = 	{Springer US},
  address = 	{New York, NY},
  volume = 	{33},
  number = 	{1},
  pages = 	{1--13},
  keywords = 	{Episodic binding and retrieval; Event coding; Learning; Memory},
  abstract = 	{Abstract Current theories about binding and learning claim that transient episodic bindings between stimulus and response features serve as the foundation for forming long-term stimulus--response (S-R) associations in memory. In two high-powered, pre-registered experiments (total N = 163), we observed that the stimulus--response binding and retrieval effect increased linearly with each additional episode contributing to the uninterrupted repetition of the same S-R combination. To examine whether this repeated exposure results in the formation of an abstract, stable, nonepisodic S-R association in long-term memory, we tested whether the influence of the uninterrupted series persists after a single intervening episode that contradicts the series. Our results show that the repetition effect does not modulate retrieval effects for S-R combinations that deviate from the series and thus does not survive a single mismatching episode, even after a large number (i.e., 10 or 11) of prior repetitions. Hence, the increased retrieval effect for long series of matching episodes does not reflect a transition from episodic retrieval to long-term learning but may instead reflect a higher probability of successfully retrieving a matching S-R episode from memory. In sum, we found no convincing evidence that pure S-R repetitions in and of themselves (independently of other processes like hypothesis testing or propositional reasoning) lead to the formation of a stable, abstract, nonepisodic representation (i.e., an association) that operates independently of binding and retrieval.},
  note = 	{Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichung},
  issn = 	{1069-9384},
  doi = 	{10.3758/s13423-025-02837-9},
  url = 	{https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00068759},
  url = 	{https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02837-9},
  file = 	{:https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00070147/13423_2026_Article_2837.pdf:PDF},
  language = 	{en}
}