Although much is known about the dynamics of\ud
memory search in the free recall task, relatively little is\ud
known about the factors related to recall termination. Rean-\ud
alyzing individual trial data from 14 prior studies (1,079\ud
participants in 28,015 trials) and defining termination as\ud
occurring when a final response is followed by a long\ud
nonresponse interval, we observed that termination proba-\ud
bility increased throughout the recall period and that retriev-\ud
al was more likely to terminate following an error than\ud
following a correct response. Among errors, termination\ud
probability was higher following prior-list intrusions and\ud
repetitions than following extralist intrusions. To verify that\ud
this pattern of results can be seen in a single study, we report\ud
a new experiment in which 80 participants contributed recall\ud
data from a total of 9,122 trials. This experiment replicated\ud
the pattern observed in the aggregate analysis of the prior\ud
studies.\u
