Editing Long-term memory (section)

====Another explanation====
One proposed explanation for recency in a continual distractor condition, and its disappearance in an end-only distractor task is the influence of contextual and distinctive processes.<ref name="Neath2">{{cite journal |last1=Neath |first1=I. |year=1993a |title=Contextual and distinctive processes and the serial position function |journal=Journal of Memory and Language |volume=32 |issue=6 |pages=820–840 |doi=10.1006/jmla.1993.1041|doi-access=free }}</ref> According to this model, recency is a result of the similarity of the final items' processing context to the processing context of the other items and the distinctive position of the final items versus intermediate items. In the end distractor task, the processing context of the final items is no longer similar to that of the other list items. At the same time, retrieval cues for these items are no longer as effective as without the distractor. Therefore, recency recedes or vanishes. However, when distractor tasks are placed before and after each item, recency returns, because all the list items have similar processing context.<ref name="Neath2" />