Temporal Grouping Effects in Immediate Recall: A Working Memory Analysis

Organization of visuo-spatial serial memory: interaction of temporal order with spatial and temporal grouping

“…Frankish, 1989) and visually (e.g. Hitch et al, 1996;Ng & Maybery, 2002), and for auditory spatial stimuli elsewhere (Parmentier, Maybery, & Jones, 2004). Experiment 4 is the first to evidence the effect of temporal grouping on visuo-spatial serial memory.…”

“…Other grouping manipulations are known to improve verbal serial memory, but, interestingly, they all lead to an enhancement of the temporal relationship between some items of a sequence. Temporal grouping exacerbates the temporal proximity of some items relative to others, resulting in higher levels of recall accuracy as well as specific types of errors confirming that the sequence is hierarchically organized in sub-groups (Frankish, 1985(Frankish, , 1989Hitch, Burgess, Towse, & Culpin, 1996;Ng & Maybery, 2002;Ryan, 1969aRyan, , 1969b. Grouping by intonation or pitch has also been found to enhance serial memory (e.g., pitch, voice or intonation, Frankish, 1989Frankish, , 1995Saito, 1998), again by imposing on the stimuli an organizational principle that reinforces the temporal links between them.…”

The discovery of human auditory–motor entrainment and its role in the development of neurologic music therapy

“…Cognitive functions, such as attention or memory, were given much less interest in more psychotherapeutically oriented concepts (Thaut et al, 2014a). However, a growing body of recent research has demonstrated intriguing links between music as a complex auditory language and higher cognitive functions, including temporal sequencing (Conway et al, 2009), temporal order learning (Hitch et al, 1996), spatiotemporal reasoning (Sarntheim et al, 1997), auditory attention (Drake et al, 2000), visual discrimination (Feng et al, 2014), hemispatial neglect (Soto et al, 2009), auditory verbal memory (Thaut et al, 2014a,b,c), emotional adjustment (Kleinstauber and Gurr, 2006), and executive control . By linking music cognition and perception research to models of music learningand finally linking music learning to retraining the injured brain, a new model has emerged that has allowed for the development of functional intervention techniques in the cognitive domain of NMT.…”

Modelling transposition latencies: Constraints for theories of serial order memory

“…Much research that has compared temporally grouped and ungrouped lists has kept the sum of all inter-item intervals constant between list types (e.g.,Henson, 1996;Hitch, Burgess, Towse, & Culpin, 1996). This approach was not followed here because inter-item intervals were adjusted during pilot testing to discourage grouping of ungrouped lists while ensuring that grouped lists were readily perceived as grouped.…”