weather, company, location, smell of a particular odor, hearing a certain song, even taste can sometimes act as a cue. For example, students sometimes fail to recall diligently studied material when an examination room's environmental conditions differ significantly from the room or place where initial learning occurred. Students may consider studying under conditions that resemble an examination center which could boost their recall during actual exams. Psychologists that have researched context dependent recall include Abernethy (1940). See also Forgetting State-dependent learning Context-dependent memory Encoding specificity principle References Further reading Memory Memory biases