Conversational memory employing cued and free recall

This study tests two hypotheses: (a) that cued recall elicits significantly more conversational information than free recall and (b) that conversational interactants recall more of their partner's utterances than their own. Subjects recalled significantly more of their conversation (about five times more in the cued recall than the free recall condition). There was no difference between recall of their own and other comments overall or in the free recall condition. However, subjects in the cued recall condition remembered more of their own than their interactional partner's utterances.