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A series of highly salient, complex visual stimuli were presented in an uninterrupted sequence. Afterward, subjects judged which member of a pair of stimuli occurred earlier and estimated temporal location in the inspection series for each. It was found that (a) presentation time for critical items did not affect accuracy of judgments, (b) presentation time for filler items had no differential effect on accuracy, (c) increased number of items produced poorer performance, (d) the framework of a brief auditory story with no intentional connection to the pictures enhanced performance, and (e) judgments were better on an immediate than on a 24-hr delayed test, particularly for pictures near the end of the original series. These findings suggest that a verbal story line may provide an effective framework for recalling the temporal order of events that occur concurrently.