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A contiguity effect—the finding that stimuli that occur close together in time become associated to each other—is observed between words that are separated by several seconds. The traditional account of contiguity effects is that item representations become associated to each other while active in a short-term memory buffer—a limited-capacity store that can hold a small, integral number of items....