Personal reminders: Self-generated reminders boost memory more than normatively related ones

People generate reminders in a variety of ways (e.g. putting items special places or creating to-do lists) to support their memories. Successful remindings can result retroactive facilitation earlier information; contrast, failures remind produce interference between memory for related information. Here, we compared the efficacy different kinds reminders, including participant’s self-generated created by prior participants, and normatively associated reminders. Self-generated boosted target words more than recall tests. Reminders generated others enhanced as much when controlled output order during recall. The results suggest that boost studied information because they distinctly point towards