Temporal isolation effects in recognition and serial recall

Morin, Caroline; Brown, Gordon D.; Lewandowsky, Stephan

doi:10.3758/mc.38.7.849

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“…This finding is analogous to the finding that temporal distance, not just ordinal distance, affects retrieval accuracy in many, though not all, paradigms testing memory for serial order (Morin et al, 2010).…”

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Spatial Transposition Gradients in Visual Working Memory

Rerko

Oberauer

Lin

2014

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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In list memory, access to individual items reflects limits of temporal distinctiveness. This is reflected in the finding that neighbouring list items tend to be confused most often. This article investigates the analogous effect of spatial proximity in a visual working-memory task. Items were presented in different locations varying in spatial distance. A retro-cue indicated the location of the item relevant for the subsequent memory test. In two recognition experiments, probes matching spatially close neighbours of the relevant item led to more false alarms than probes matching distant neighbours or non-neighbouring memory items. In two probed-recall experiments, one with simultaneous, the other with sequential memory item presentation, items closer to the cued location were more frequently chosen for recall than more distant items. These results reflect a spatial transposition gradient analogous to the temporal transposition gradient in serial recall and challenge fixed-capacity models of visual working memory (WM).

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 81%

Spatial Transposition Gradients in Visual Working Memory

Rerko

Oberauer

Lin

2014

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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“…This finding is difficult to accommodate in terms of a temporal distinctiveness account. However, having said that, it must be acknowledged that the current experiments did use a closed pool of memory items and used the repetition of a single distractor to block rehearsal in Experiment 3, two conditions that have been suggested to mask temporal isolation effects in serial recall tasks (Morin et al, 2010). Nevertheless, this argument does not discount the fact that a significant effect of post-item interval was found in the current experiments, consistent with a process of consolidation.…”

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“…A number of studies have shown evidence of temporal isolation effects (e.g. Brown, Morin, & Lewandowsky, 2006;Geiger & Lewandowsky, 2008;Neath & Crowder, 1996), however, these effects are typically reduced and often non-significant in paradigms that require forward serial recall (Morin, Brown, & Lewandowsky, 2010). In the current study, a delay was presented either immediately after the presentation of each memory item (delayed condition) or immediately before the presentation of the following memory item (immediate condition), both of which should have led to a similar degree of temporal isolation for the memory items.…”

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Consolidating working memory: Distinguishing the effects of consolidation, rehearsal and attentional refreshing in a working memory span task

Bayliss

Bogdanovs

Jarrold

2015

Journal of Memory and Language

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“…Lewandowsky, Brown, and colleagues have examined temporal isolation effects under a range of short-term recall conditions (see Morin, Brown, & Lewandowsky, 2010, for a review). They have consistently shown that temporal effects are typically weak and often not statistically significant in forward recall.…”

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“…On the basis of the present results. it might be argued that serial position and item dimensions are jointly involved in forward serial recall, but that the temporal dimension is dominant in backward recall, and that item and, perhaps, temporal dimensions (see Morin et al, 2010) are involved in single-item recognition.…”

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Word length and age influences on forward and backward immediate serial recall

Baker

Tehan

2011

Mem Cogn

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The present research is aimed at understanding the processes involved in short-term memory and how they interact with age. Specifically, word length effects were examined under forward serial recall, backward serial recall, and item recognition tasks, with performance being interpreted within an item-order theoretical framework. The interaction of age, word length, and direction of recall was examined in two experiments, the first of which confirmed that the word length was present with forward recall and absent with backward recall. In addition, age effects were stronger in backward recall than in forward recall. In the second experiment, an item-order trade-off methodology was utilized with backward recall. When order memory was required, there was no word length effect and strong age effects. When memory was tested via an item recognition test, there was a reverse word length effect and no age effect. While word length effects can be interpreted within the item-order framework, age effects cannot.Keywords Short-term memory . Word length . Foward recall . Backward recall . Aging Immediate forward serial recall of short lists of words is influenced by the length of the to-be-remembered words, such that lists of short words are better recalled in order than lists of long words (Baddeley, Thomson, & Buchanan, 1975). The word length effect has been seen as one of the benchmark phenomena of short-term recall that models of short-term memory must account for. However, almost all theory development has occurred in the context of forward serial recall, and very little attention has been devoted to explaining performance on backward recall, and where it has been addressed (Page & Norris, 1998), it has been assumed that the same structures and processes that underpin forward recall also support backward recall. Recently, this assumption has proved to be untenable in that many of the benchmark effects of forward recall, including the word length effect, are eliminated or severely attenuated in backward recall (Bireta, Fry, Jalbert, Neath, Surprenant, Tehan, & Tolan, 2010). Thus, one of the aims of the present experiments was to understand why the word length effect differs for backward and forward recall.The second aim of the present study had to do with understanding age differences in short-term memory performance. Again, most of the focus in aging effects in short-term memory has concentrated upon forward serial recall, with very little research being conducted using backward recall. If forward and backward recall are not supported by the same mechanisms and processes, aging effects may well differ for forward and backward recall. At the very least, examining backward recall will provide additional empirical evidence with which to explore agerelated influences on short-term memory. Word length in forward and backward serial recallIn exploring word length effects, it appears that two forms of the effect need to be considered: the time-based effect and the syllable-based effect. The time-based effect refers to...

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Temporal isolation effects in recognition and serial recall

Cited by 24 publications

References 42 publications

Spatial Transposition Gradients in Visual Working Memory

Spatial Transposition Gradients in Visual Working Memory

Consolidating working memory: Distinguishing the effects of consolidation, rehearsal and attentional refreshing in a working memory span task

Word length and age influences on forward and backward immediate serial recall

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