Still no evidence for the encoding variability hypothesis: A reply to Jang, Mickes, and Wixted (2012) and Starns, Rotello, and Ratcliff (2012).

Koen and Yonelinas (2010) contrasted the recollection and encoding variability accounts of the finding that old items are associated with more variable memory strength than new items. The study indicated that (a) increasing encoding variability did not lead to increased measures of old item variance, and (b) old item variance was directly related to the contribution of recollection. Jang, Mickes, and Wixted (2012) and Starns, Rotello, and...