Method and results of Experiment 3.

<p>(A) Sample trial. One bar appeared before the rest of the memory array. After a blank retention interval in variable durations, a probe appeared and participants were required to rotate it to match the orientation of the target bar. (B) Average error (and SEM across participants) for each memory strength condition and retention interval condition. (C) The posterior distributions of the simple effects of retention interval (long–short) for the two memory strength conditions. Horizontal bars represent the 95% high posterior density intervals (HDI). The overlap in the two distributions supports the notion that there is no difference in forgetting rate between the conditions.