Short-term recognition memory for complex free-form figures

Cermak, Gregory W.

doi:10.3758/bf03329095

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“…Slow forgetting, once considered unique to odor memory (Engen, 1977;Engen & Ross, 1973;Lawless & Cain, 1975), has also been demonstrated for voices (e.g., Legge, Grosmann, & Pieper, 1984) and simple visual forms (Cermak, 1971;Lawless, 1978). The present study expands our understanding of the forgetting of odors by showing that interference occurs when the target and distractor items are similar.…”

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Interference and facilitation in short-term memory for odors

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Johns

1984

Perception & Psychophysics

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This study investigated short-term memory for odors using a four-alternative, forced-choiced recognition paradigm. Stimuli were the odors of 36 common food substances. Twelve subjects were tested in each offour conditions, which differed in the activity performed during the retention interval. Recognition performance was poorest when subjects free associated to an additional odorant presented during the retention interval. Thus, interference from interpolated events does occur in odor memory. Recognition performance was best when the subjects free associated to the name of the target odorant during the retention interval. Thus, the memory code for odors may incorporate semantic information. Remembering odors appears, therefore, to be governed by the same principles as remembering stimuli in other modalities.

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Interference and facilitation in short-term memory for odors

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Johns

1984

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…Use of a visual short-term store has been demonstrated for nonverbal stimuli, which cannot be recoded auditorily (e.g., Cermak, 1971). For verbal stimuli, use of a visual short-term store has been demonstrated by testing recognition latencies (e.g., Posner, Boies, Eichelman, & Taylor, 1969).…”

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Testing visual short-term memory: Simultaneous versus sequential presentations

Frick

1985

Mem Cogn

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Two experiments testing immediate ordered recall are presented; in these experiments, subjects engaged in repetitive speech ("articulatory suppression") during a visual presentation in order to prevent auditory recoding of the stimuli. In both experiments, a simultaneous presentation produced results that suggested the use of visual short-term memory, whereas a sequential presentation did not. In Experiment 1, visual confusion errors occurred more often than would be expected by chance for a simultaneous presentation but not for a sequential presentation. In Experiment 2, recall from visual short-term memory was expected to suffer more when subjects wrote a prefix than when they spoke a prefix; this effect occurred for a simultaneous presentation but not for a sequential presentation. These results suggest that existence of a visual shortterm store that retains a simultaneous presentation but not a sequential presentation.

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“…A major difficulty with this notion is that it has been proposed seriously only with regard to memory for verbal materials. It seems unlikely that phonemic or semantic memory codes could playa very important role in memory for visual scenes, faces, or complex, unfamiliar shapes; yet such materials are retained over relatively long intervals (e.g., Cermak, 1971;Hochberg & Galper, 1967;Shepard, 1967).…”

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