Serial recall of two-voice lists: implications for theories of auditory recency and suffix effects.
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Abstract
Substantial recency effects are found in immediate serial recall of auditory items. These recency effects are greatly reduced when an irrelevant auditory stimulus (a stimulus suffix) is presented. A number of accounts that have been proposed to explain these phenomena assume that auditory items are susceptible to masking or overwriting in memory. Later items overwrite earlier items, leading to an advantage for the last item, unless it is masked by a suffix. This assumption is called into question by evidence that presenting list items in two voices has no beneficial effect in immediate serial recall. In addition, it is shown that suffix effects on both terminal and preterminal list items are influenced by the physical similarity of the suffix to the terminal item and not by the physical similarity of the suffix to preterminal items.
Affiliation
Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106.
External References
- PubMed ID:
- 2017031
- DOI:
- 10.3758/bf03198497
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