Slave to the rhythm: Experimental tests of a model for verbal short-term memory and long-term sequence learning

Hitch, Graham J.; Flude, Brenda M.; Burgess, Neil

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2009.02.004

Journal of Memory and Language

2009

DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.02.004

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Slave to the rhythm: Experimental tests of a model for verbal short-term memory and long-term sequence learning

Graham J. Hitch

Brenda M. Flude

Neil Burgess

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“…In line with this idea, some studies showed that changes to the perception of the sequences disrupt the Hebb repetition effect and that language production played little role (Schwartz & Bryden 1971). For instance, Bower and Winzenz (1969; see also Hitch et al, 2009) showed that the Hebb repetition effect was impaired when the timing to induce grouping was changed across repetitions of the repeated list. O' Shea and Clegg (2006) also investigated the effect of changing the grouping pattern only during recall and found that this manipulation had little or no consequence on the rate of learning.…”

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“…Similarly, Gathercole, Service, Hitch, Adams, and Martin (1999) found that children's speech output during an immediate serial-recall task was unnecessary for sequence learning. Other studies showed that preventing articulation using articulatory suppression interfered with immediate serial recall, but not with the learning of repeated lists (Hitch et al, 2009;Page et al, 2006), suggesting that speech production is unnecessary to produce a Hebb repetition effect.…”

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“…This effect is known as the Hebb repetition effect. The Hebb repetition effect is commonly used as a laboratory analogue to language learning (Hitch, Flude, & Burgess, 2009;Mosse & Jarrold, 2008;Page, Cumming, Norris, Hitch, & McNeil, 2006;Page, Cumming, Norris, McNeil, & Hitch, 2013;Page & Norris, 2009;Szmalec, Duyck, Vandierendonck, Mata, & Page, 2009). Indeed, Hebbian learning and language learning both involve the perception of repeatedly presented lists of verbal items, followed by subsequent reproduction of the items in the correct order.…”

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“…For example, most experiments using the Hebb repetition task used digits (Cumming, Page, & Norris, 2003;Oberauer & Meyer, 2009), letters (Cunningham et al, 1984;Kalm & Norris, 2016), words (Page et al, 2006;Page et al, 2013), or pictures of well-known objects (Mosse & Jarrold, 2008) as stimuli. Moreover, although language learning implies the auditory perception and a verbal production of words, most studies departed from the natural context of language learning by using visually presented sequences (Saint-Aubin, Guérard, Fiset, & Losier, 2015;Szmalec et al, 2009) or written recall (Hitch et al, 2009;Oberauer & Meyer, 2009;Page et al, 2013). Finally, previous studies with verbal materials had minimized the overlap between the repeated list and the nonrepeated lists (Hitch et al, 2009;Page et al, 2013), whereas words from all languages are made from a limited set of phonemes.…”

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“…Moreover, although language learning implies the auditory perception and a verbal production of words, most studies departed from the natural context of language learning by using visually presented sequences (Saint-Aubin, Guérard, Fiset, & Losier, 2015;Szmalec et al, 2009) or written recall (Hitch et al, 2009;Oberauer & Meyer, 2009;Page et al, 2013). Finally, previous studies with verbal materials had minimized the overlap between the repeated list and the nonrepeated lists (Hitch et al, 2009;Page et al, 2013), whereas words from all languages are made from a limited set of phonemes. In the present study, we used a Hebb paradigm that was as close as possible to the natural language-learning experience: Stimuli were presented auditorily and had to be recalled orally.…”

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The Hebb repetition effect (Hebb, 1961) occurs when recall performance improves for a list that is repeated during a serial-recall task. This effect is considered a good experimental analogue to language learning. Our objective was to evaluate the role of overt language production in language learning by manipulating recall direction during a Hebb repetition paradigm. In each trial, seven nonsense syllables were presented auditorily. Participants had to orally recall the items either in the presentation order or in reverse order. One sequence was repeated every third trial. In Experiment 1, we compared learning from a group that had recalled the items in their presentation order to learning from a group that had recalled the items in the reverse order. The two groups yielded similar learning rates. In Experiment 2, recall direction was varied between trials. The learning rate was not affected when recall direction varied between trials, suggesting a limited role of overt language production in language learning.

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Influence of metrical structure on learning of positional regularities in movement sequences

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Sequential stimuli are usually perceived to have hierarchical temporal structures. However, some of these structures are only investigated in one type of sequence, regardless of the existing evidence, showing the domain-generality of the representation of these structures. Here, we assess whether the hierarchical representation of regularly segmented action sequences resembles the perceived metrical patterns that organize the representation of events hierarchically in temporally regular sequences. In all our experiments, we presented the participants with sequences of human movements and tested the perception of metrical pattern by segmenting the movement streams into temporally equal groups containing four movements. In Experiment 1, we found that a movement sequence with temporally equal groupings improves the learning of positional regularities inherent within each group of movements. To further clarify the degree to which this learning mechanism is affected by the perceived metrical patterns, we conducted Experiments 2a and 2b, in which the relative saliencies of the first and last positions in the movement groups, respectively, were studied. The results showed that, although in the learning of positional regularities, the rule-conforming first positions are as effective as when both first and last positions are legal, the last positions are not as influential. Based on these findings we conclude that, in grouped sequences, learning of positional regularities may be modulated by the metrical saliency patterns that are imposed by the temporal regularity of the sequential grouping pattern.

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Short-term memory for order but not for item information is impaired in developmental dyslexia

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Recent findings suggest that people with dyslexia experience difficulties with the learning of serial order information during the transition from short- to long-term memory (Szmalec et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition 37(5): 1270-1279, 2011). At the same time, models of short-term memory increasingly incorporate a distinction of order and item processing (Majerus et al. Cognition 107: 395-419, 2008). The current study is aimed to investigate whether serial order processing deficiencies in dyslexia can be traced back to a selective impairment of short-term memory for serial order and whether this impairment also affects processing beyond the verbal domain. A sample of 26 adults with dyslexia and a group of age and IQ-matched controls participated in a 2 × 2 × 2 experiment in which we assessed short-term recognition performance for order and item information, using both verbal and nonverbal material. Our findings indicate that, irrespective of the type of material, participants with dyslexia recalled the individual items with the same accuracy as the matched control group, whereas the ability to recognize the serial order in which those items were presented appeared to be affected in the dyslexia group. We conclude that dyslexia is characterized by a selective impairment of short-term memory for serial order, but not for item information, and discuss the integration of these findings into current theoretical views on dyslexia and its associated dysfunctions.

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Slave to the rhythm: Experimental tests of a model for verbal short-term memory and long-term sequence learning

Cited by 47 publications

References 75 publications

The role of overt language production in the Hebb repetition effect

The role of overt language production in the Hebb repetition effect

Influence of metrical structure on learning of positional regularities in movement sequences

Short-term memory for order but not for item information is impaired in developmental dyslexia

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