Short- and long-term memory contributions to immediate serial recognition: Evidence from serial position effects

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 679-693

  Purser, Harry ^a   Jarrold, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Phonological similarity; Recognition; Semantic knowledge; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 77949563058     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210903067635     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Atkinson, R. C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (1968). Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes. In K. W. Spence & J. T. Spence (Eds.), The psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 2, pp. 89-195). New York: Academic Press.
2. Baddeley, A. D. (1966a). The influence of acoustic and semantic similarity on long-term memory for word sequences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 302-309.
3. Baddeley, A. D. (1966b). Short-term memory for word sequences as a function of acoustic, semantic and formal similarity. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 362-365.
4. Baddeley, A. D. (1968). How does acoustic similarity influence short-term memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 20, 249-263.
5. Baddeley, A. D. (1990). Human memory: Theory and practice. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
6. Baddeley, A. D. (2001). The concept of episodic memory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 35, 1345-1350.
7. Baddeley, A., Gathercole, S., & Papagno, C. (1998). The phonological loop as a language learning device. Psychological Review, 105, 158-173.
8. Baddeley, A. D., Thompson, N., & Buchanan, M. (1975). Word length and the structure of shortterm memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 14, 575-589.
9. Brown, G. D. A., Neath, I., & Chater, N. (2007). A temporal ratio model of memory. Psychological Review, 114, 539-576.
10. Comblain, A. (1996). Auditivo-vocal short-term memory's functioning in Down's syndrome: Implication for the model of working memory. Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez L'Enfant, 8, 137-147.
11. Conrad, R., & Hull, A. J. (1964). Information, acoustic confusion, and memory span. British Journal of Psychology, 55, 429-432.
12. Cowan, N. (2001). The magical number 4 in shortterm memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 87-114.
13. Cowan, N., Day, L., Saults, J. S., Keller, T. A., Johnson, T., & Flores, L. (1992). The role of verbal output time in the effects of word length on immediate memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 1-17.
14. Cowan, N., Elliott, E. M., Saults, J. S., Morey, C. C., Mattox, S., Hismjatullina, A., et al. (2005). On the capacity of attention: Its estimation and its role in working memory and cognitive aptitudes. Cognitive Psychology, 51, 42-100.
15. Cowan, N., Nugent, L. D., Elliot, E. M., & Saults, J. S. (2000). Persistence of memory for ignored lists of digits: Areas of developmental constancy and change. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 76, 151-172.
16. Davelaar, E. J., Goshen-Gottstein, Y., Ashkenazi, A., Haarmann, H. J., & Usher, M. (2005). The demise of short-term memory revisited: Empirical and computational investigations of recency effects. Psychological Review, 112, 3-42.
17. Dosher, B. A., & Ma, J. J. (1998). Output loss or rehearsal loop? Output-time versus pronunciationtime limits in immediate recall for forgettingmatched materials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 316-335.
18. Dunn, L. M., Dunn, L M., Whetton, C., & Burley, J. (1997). British Picture Vocabulary Scale II. Windsor, UK: NFER-Nelson.
19. Ebbinghaus, H. (1964). Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology. New York: Dover. (Original work published 1885).
20. Gathercole, S. E., Adams, A. M., & Hitch, G. J. (1994). Do young children rehearse? An individual differences analysis. Memory and Cognition, 22, 201-207.
21. Gathercole, S. E., & Baddeley, A. D. (1990). Phonological memory deficits in language disordered children: Is there a causal connection? Journal of Memory and Language, 29, 336-360.
22. Gathercole, S. E., & Baddeley, A. D. (1993). Working memory and language. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
23. Gibson, D. (1978). Down's syndrome: The psychology of mongolism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
24. Henry, L. A. (1991). The effects of word length and phonemic similarity in young children's shortterm memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 43A, 35-52.
25. Hoffman, P. E., Jefferies, B., Ehsan, S., Hopper, S., & Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2009). Selective short-term memory deficits arise from impaired domaingeneral semantic control mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 137-156.
26. Hulme, C., & Mackenzie, S. (1992). Working memory and severe learning difficulties. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
27. Hulme, C., Thomson, N., Muir, C., & Lawrence, A. (1984). Speech rate and the development of shortterm memory span. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 38, 241-253.
28. Jarrold, C., Baddeley, A. D., & Hewes, A. K. (2000). Verbal short-term memory deficits in Down syndrome: A consequence of problems in rehearsal? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40, 233-244.
29. Jarrold, C., Baddeley, A. D., Hewes, A. K., Leeke, T., & Phillips, C. (2004). What links verbal short-term memory performance and vocabulary level? Evidence of changing relationships among individuals with learning disability. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 134-148.
30. Jarrold, C., Baddeley, A., & Phillips, C. E. (2002). Verbal short-termmemory in Down syndrome: A problem of memory, audition, or speech? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 45, 531-544.
31. Jarrold, C., Purser, H. R. M., & Brock, J. (2006). Shortterm memory in Down syndrome. In T. P. Alloway & S. Gathercole (Eds.), Working memory and neurodevelopmental conditions. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
32. Jefferies, E., Frankish, C., & Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2006). Lexical and semantic influences on item and order memory in immediate serial recognition: Evidence from a novel task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 949-964.
33. Kanno, K., & Ikeda, Y. (2002). Word-length effect in verbal short-term memory in individuals with Down's syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 46, 613-618.
34. Kasari, C., & Freeman, S. F. (2001). Task-related social behavior in children with Down syndrome. American Journal of Mental Retardation, 106, 253-264.
35. Kintsch, W., & Buschke, H. (1969). Homonyms and synonyms in short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 80, 403-407.
36. Klein, G. A. (1970). Temporal changes in acoustic and semantic confusion effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 86, 236-240.
37. Lewandowsky, S., & Farrell, S. (2008). Phonological similarity in serial recall: Constraints on theories of memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 429-448.
38. Logie, R. H., Della Salla, S., Laiacona, M., Chambers, P., & Wynn, V. (1996). Group aggregates and individual reliability: The case of verbal short-term memory. Memory and Cognition, 24, 305-321.
39. Martin, N., & Saffran, E. M. (1997). Language and auditory-verbal short-term memory impairments: Evidence for common underlying processes. Cognitive Psychology, 14, 641-682.
40. Martin, R. C., & Lesch, M. F. (1996). Associations and dissociations between language impairment and list recall: Implications for models of STM. In S. E. Gathercole (Ed.), Models of short-term memory (pp. 149-178). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
41. Martin, R. C., Shelton, J., & Yaffee, L. S. (1994). Language processing and working memory: Neuropsychological evidence for separate phonological and semantic capacities. Journal of Memory and Language, 33, 83-111.
42. McNicol, D. (1972). A primer of signal detection theory. London, UK: Allen & Unwin.
43. Miller, G. A. (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. Psychological Review, 63, 81-97.
44. Muter, P. (1980). Very rapid forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 8, 174-179.
45. Nairne, J. S. (1990). A feature model of immediate memory. Memory and Cognition, 18, 251-269.
46. Nicolson, R. (1981). The relationship between memory span and processing speed. In M. Friedman, J. P. Das, & N. O'Connor (Eds.), Intelligence and learning (pp. 179-184). New York: Plenum.
47. Oberauer, K. (2003). Understanding serial position curves in short-term recognition and recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 469-483.
48. Palladino, P., & Jarrold, C. (2008). Do updating tasks involve updating? Evidence from comparisons with immediate serial recall. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 392-399.
49. Palmer, S. E. (2000). Development of phonological recoding and literacy acquisition: A four-year crosssequential study. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 18, 533-555.
50. Pitcairn, T. K., & Wishart, J. G. (1994). Reactions of young people with Down's syndrome to an impossible task. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12, 485-489.
51. Poirier, M., & Saint-Aubin, J. (1995). Memory for related and unrelated words: Further evidence on the influence of semantic factors in immediate serial recall. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 48A, 384-404.
52. Pollack, I., Johnson, I. B., & Knaff, P. R. (1959). Running memory span. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 137-146.
53. Purser, H. R. M., & Jarrold, C. (2005). Impaired verbal short-term memory in Down syndrome reflects a capacity limitation rather than atypically rapid forgetting. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 91, 1-23.
54. Raven, J., Raven, J. C., & Court, J. H. (1998). Coloured Progressive Matrices. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
55. Rundus, D. (1971). Analysis of rehearsal processes in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 89, 63-77.
56. Shulman, H. G. (1970). Encoding and retention of semantic and phonemic information in short-term memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 9, 499-508.
57. Shulman, H. G. (1972). Semantic confusion errors in short-term memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 11, 221-227.
58. Tan, L., & Ward, G. (2000). A recency-based account of primacy effects in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1589-1625.
59. Tehan, G., & Humphreys, M. S. (1995). Transient phonemic codes and immunity to proactive interference. Memory & Cognition, 23, 181-191.
60. Tell, P. M. (1972). The role of certain acoustic and semantic factors at short and long retention intervals. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 11, 455-464.
61. Tulving, E.,&Patterson, R. D. (1968). Functional units and retrieval processes in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 239-248.
62. Unsworth, N., & Engle, R. W. (2006). Simple and complex memory spans and their relation to fluid abilities: Evidence from list-length effects. Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 68-80.
63. Unsworth, N., & Engle, R. W. (2007a). The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: Active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search in secondary memory. Psychological Review, 114, 104-132.
64. Unsworth, N., & Engle, R. W. (2007b). On the division of short-term and working memory: An examination of simple and complex span and their relation to higher order abilities. Psychological Bulletin, 133, 1038-1066.
65. Vallar, G., & Papagno, C. (1995). Neuropsychological impairments of short-term memory. In A. D. Baddeley, B. A. Wilson, & F. Watts (Eds.), Handbook of memory disorders (pp. 135-165). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
66. Walker, I., & Hulme, C. (1999). Concrete words are easier to recall than abstract words: Evidence for a semantic contribution to short-term serial recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 1256-1271.
67. Waugh, N. C., & Norman, D. A. (1965). Primary memory. Psychological Review, 72, 89-104.
68. Wickens, D. D., Born, D. G., & Allen, C. K. (1963). Proactive inhibition and item similarity in shortterm memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 2, 440-445.
69. Wickens, D. D., & Clark, S. (1968). Osgood dimensions as an encoding class in short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78, 580-584.
70. Wicklegren, W. A. (1965a). Acoustic similarity and retroactive interference in short-term memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 4, 53-61.
71. Wicklegren, W. A. (1965b). Short-term memory for phonemically similar lists. American Journal of Psychology, 78, 567-574.
72. Wishart, J. G., & Duffy, L. (1990). Instability of performance on cognitive tests in infants and young children with Down's syndrome. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 60, 10-22.