Exploring Trial-Level Reliability of Short-Term Memory Effects in Immediate Serial Recall
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The within-participant reliability of three short-term memory effects – the word length effect, the semantic similarity effect, and the phonological neighbourhood effect – in immediate serial recall was explored using two existing datasets. This was done to address the question of the extent to which individual participants consistently showed the effects across trials, even when the effects were robust at the group-level data. Split-half reliability coefficients were surprisingly low, suggesting that the effects for individual participants were not particularly stable across the experiments. These findings call for more systematic investigations into the extent to which memory effects are reliable across participants.
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