Temporal aspects of retrieval in short-term serial retention

Anticipatory access to group-level information in working memory

“…In the following experiments, we used a precued probed recall to determine whether group-level access precedes access to items in the groups, including access to information about their position within the group. Some earlier related work was conducted by Hendrikx (1984bHendrikx ( , 1987 who showed that precueing a small number of items from a sequence following presentation-to indicate that one of them will be the target of a following probed recall cue-led to a sizeable reduction in probed recall response latencies. Of particular relevance here are Experiments 1 and 2 of Hendrikx (1984b) that examined the effects of precueing lists that were grouped by intonation of voice.…”

“…Some earlier related work was conducted by Hendrikx (1984bHendrikx ( , 1987 who showed that precueing a small number of items from a sequence following presentation-to indicate that one of them will be the target of a following probed recall cue-led to a sizeable reduction in probed recall response latencies. Of particular relevance here are Experiments 1 and 2 of Hendrikx (1984b) that examined the effects of precueing lists that were grouped by intonation of voice. Hendrikx (1984b) found evidence consistent with staged (top-down) access to a hierarchy: in particular, precues that bridged the group boundary appeared less effective than precues indexing specific groups.…”

“…Of particular relevance here are Experiments 1 and 2 of Hendrikx (1984b) that examined the effects of precueing lists that were grouped by intonation of voice. Hendrikx (1984b) found evidence consistent with staged (top-down) access to a hierarchy: in particular, precues that bridged the group boundary appeared less effective than precues indexing specific groups. However, Hendrikx (1984b) also noted aspects of his data that were more problematic for hierarchical theories at the time (Estes, 1972).…”

Standardization of Performance Tests: A Proposal for Further Steps.

“…Accordingly subjective reports indicate that memory scanning is not accessible to introspection (Sternberg,1966). This is very different from retrieval In serial recall tasks which actually take search rates of some 200 ms/item (Hendrikx, 1984).…”

Short-term proactive interference revisited

“…This change from a primacy advantage in non-PI trials to about equal latencies in PI trials was replicated by Hendrikx (1983), again in a setting in which two trials were run in close succession, followed by a longer interval before presenting the next pair. However, in the case of many successive trials, Hendrikx (1984aHendrikx ( , 1984b repeatedly found a substantial faster RT for the most recent item as compared with RT for the first item, the difference amounting to about 200 msec. This could suggest that the effect of PIon recall latency accumulates over a larger number of trials than indicated by the traditional measures of recall accuracy.…”