The Unfinished Task as Attractor: The Coherence-Restoration Rate in Learning — Overview
An honest epistemic stratification of the Zeigarnik effect, the Ovsiankina effect, and discharge-through-planning. The classical Zeigarnik memory effect is among psychology's least stable results (2025 meta-analysis across 37 studies: pooled dz = 0.15, recall ratio 0.99 — 'lacks…
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An honest epistemic stratification of the Zeigarnik effect, the Ovsiankina effect, and discharge-through-planning. The classical Zeigarnik memory effect is among psychology's least stable results (2025 meta-analysis across 37 studies: pooled dz = 0.15, recall ratio 0.99 — 'lacks universal validity'); the better-replicated Ovsiankina resumption effect anchors the constructive part. An unfinished learning task is modeled as an iteration Ψk → Ψ∗ of the self-observation operator short of its fixed point; the pull toward closure takes the form of the contraction modulus q(B,S) and the coherence-restoration rate Γrest, reused from the ODTOE corpus. Distinguishes phantom closure (marking 'done' without retrieval) from true retention; states four falsifiable predictions P1–P4 with explicit falsifiers.