Grouping of list items reflected in the timing of recall: implications for models of serial verbal memory

Maybery, Murray T.; Parmentier, Fabrice B. R.; Jones, Dylan M.

doi:10.1016/s0749-596x(02)00014-1

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“…According to Farrell's (2012) model, each cluster (in the case of the current study, each pair) is organised much like the way one distinguishes separate episodes in episodic memory. The temporal grouping benefit in the TD group is in line with previous research showing that TD individuals benefit from various forms of perceptual grouping at presentation (Bower & Winzenz, 1969;Frankish, 1995;Maybery, et al, 2002;Ryan, 1969). Importantly this study extends this previous work…”

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“…The overall finding of a temporal grouping benefit aligns with numerous previous studies whereby grouping of the input at presentation has been shown to provide a recall benefit, (Bower & Winzenz, 1969;Frankish, 1995;Maybery, et al, 2002;Melkman, et al, 1981;Ryan, 1969). Given that young children and those with DS may not have the ability to use spontaneous grouping strategies (Towse, et al, 1999), it would be particularly useful to provide structure at input for young children and those with DS as well as perhaps for other learning disability groups, to enhance their performance during STM tasks.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…For example, it has long been known that presenting memoranda with grouping imposed on the items using perceptual separation, such as by separating items by temporal pauses, results in benefits to recall in typically developing groups. Such perceptual grouping effects are observed in both adults (Bower & Winzenz, 1969;Frankish, 1995;Maybery, Parmentier, & Jones, 2002;Melkman, Tversky, & Baratz, 1981;Ryan, 1969), and children (Harris & Burke, 1972), including pre-schoolers (Calfee, 1969). It has been suggested by Farrell (2012) that clusters (or groups) provide a hierarchical temporal context; recalling the context consequently helps an individual to recall the items within that group context.…”

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Grouping, semantic relation and imagery effects in individuals with Down syndrome

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Jarrold²

2014

Research in Developmental Disabilities

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“…There was also a particularly pronounced increase in response time approximately half way through recall of the confusable items for the older group. One possibility is that this is due to spontaneous grouping on the part of the older subjects (e.g., Maybery, Parmentier, & Jones, 2002). 1 An alternate interpretation is that it reflects the fact that the subjects are now trying to recall items that are essentially no longer available.…”

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Modeling age-related differences in immediate memory using SIMPLE

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Neath

Brown

2006

Journal of Memory and Language

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In the SIMPLE model (Scale Invariant Memory and Perceptual Learning), performance on memory tasks is determined by the locations of items in multidimensional space, and better performance is associated with having fewer close neighbors. Unlike most previous simulations with SIMPLE, the ones reported here used measured, rather than assumed, dimensional values. The data to be modeled come from an experiment in which younger and older adults recalled lists of acoustically confusable and non-confusable items. A multidimensional scaling solution based on the memory confusions was obtained. SIMPLE accounted for the overall difference in performance both between the two age groups and, within each age group, the overall difference between acoustically confusable and non-confusable items in terms of the MDS coordinates. Moreover, the model accounted for the serial position functions and error gradients. Finally, the generality of the model's account was examined by fitting data from an already published study. The data and the modeling support the hypothesis that older adults' memory may be worse, in part, because of altered representations due to age-related auditory perceptual deficits. KeywordsMemory; Memory models; Aging and memory Brown, Neath, and Chater (2002; see also Neath and Brown 2006) proposed a local distinctiveness model of memory called SIMPLE (Scale Invariant Memory and Perceptual Learning) in which memory retrieval, regardless of the paradigm, is viewed as discrimination of items in terms of their location along one or more dimensions. Items with fewer close neighbors on the relevant dimensions will be better remembered than items with more close neighbors. In a typical simulation, the researcher makes an assumption about what the relevant underlying dimensions should be. For many simulations, the choice of dimensions is relatively uncontroversial; for example, for free recall, the primary dimension is typically assumed to be time (Brown et al., 2002) and for absolute identification of tones, it is assumed to be frequency

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“…Data from serial recall experiments point to latencies between 0.5 and 1 s per item for spoken recall (somewhat longer for typed recall), with the exception of the first item, which takes considerably longer to recall (Dosher & Ma, 1998;Farrell & Lewandowsky, 2004;Maybery, Parmentier, & Jones, 2002). Recall times in complex span tasks have rarely been measured, and they seem to depend on the specific version of complex span, with longer recall times for reading span or listening span than for counting span (Cowan et al, 2003).…”

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Modeling working memory: a computational implementation of the Time-Based Resource-Sharing theory

2010

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Working memory is a core concept in cognition, predicting about 50% of the variance in IQ and reasoning tasks. A popular test of working memory is the complex span task, in which encoding of memoranda alternates with processing of distractors. A recent model of complex span performance, the Time-Based-Resource-Sharing (TBRS) model of Barrouillet and colleagues, has seemingly accounted for several crucial findings, in particular the intricate trade-off between deterioration and restoration of memory in the complex span task. According to the TBRS, memory traces decay during processing of the distractors, and they are restored by attentional refreshing during brief pauses in between processing steps. However, to date, the theory has been formulated only at a verbal level, which renders it difficult to test and to be certain of its intuited predictions. We present a computational instantiation of the TBRS and show that it can handle most of the findings on which the verbal model was based. We also show that there are potential challenges to the model that await future resolution. This instantiated model, TBRS*, is the first comprehensive computational model of performance in the complex span paradigm. The Matlab model code is available as a supplementary material of this article.

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Grouping of list items reflected in the timing of recall: implications for models of serial verbal memory

Cited by 89 publications

References 31 publications

Grouping, semantic relation and imagery effects in individuals with Down syndrome

Grouping, semantic relation and imagery effects in individuals with Down syndrome

Modeling age-related differences in immediate memory using SIMPLE

Modeling working memory: a computational implementation of the Time-Based Resource-Sharing theory

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