Visual similarity effects in immediate serial recall and (sometimes) in immediate serial recognition

Rehearsal in immediate serial recall.

We report for the first time overt rehearsal data in immediate serial recall (ISR) undertaken at three presentation rates (1, 2.5, and 5 sec/word). Two groups of participants saw lists of six words for ISR and were required either to engage in overt rehearsal or to remain silent after reading aloud the word list during its presentation. Typical ISR serial position effects were obtained for both...

Common Modality Effects in Immediate Free Recall and Immediate Serial Recall

In 2 experiments, participants were presented with lists of between 2 and 12 words for either immediate free recall (IFR) or immediate serial recall (ISR). Auditory recall advantages at the end of the list (modality effects) and visual recall advantages early in the list (inverse modality effects) were observed in both tasks and the extent and magnitude of these effects were dependent upon list...

Phonological and semantic strategies in immediate serial recall.

It has been suggested that certain theoretically important anomalous results in the area of verbal short-term memory could be attributable to differences in strategy. However there are relatively few studies that investigate strategy directly. We describe four experiments, each involving the immediate serial recall of word sequences under baseline control conditions, or preceded by instruction ...

Spatial clustering and hierarchical coding in immediate serial recall

Order and Number Requirements in Immediate Serial Recall

Eight groups of 16 5"s recalled 10-number sequences in which two order requirements and one response number requirement were imposed. Both order requirements, production order and final protocol order, significantly influenced retention and interacted with primary and recency effects within the recall sequences. Restriction of the number of responses emitted influenced only the level of perform...