Rejoinder. Hypermnesia: The importance of recall time and asymptotic level of recall

The points raised by Erdelyi are briefly discussed. He argues that some experiments failing to find level of recall on a first test related to gains across tests provide exceptions to our claims. Most of these alleged exceptions are unrelated to our proposal, since our assertion that level of recall and hypermnesia were correlated specified that recall level referred to asymptotic recall, not that on a first test. The importance of considering recall time as well as recall level in accounting for gains across tests is discussed. The second point, the difficulty in distinguishing between imaginal and other coding factors in accounts of hypermnesia, is not inconsistent with our proposal, as we did not favor a levels of processing account. Consideration of coding factors without regard to retrieval factors will not provide an adequate account of hypermnesia.