Absence of a Cross-Modal “Suffix Effect” in Short-Term Memory

SAGE Publications - Tập 22 Số 2 - Trang 167-176 - 1970
John Morton1, C.M. Holloway1
1Medical Research Council, Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge.

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Three experiments are reported involving the presentation of lists of either letters or digits for immediate serial recall. The main variable was the presence or absence of a suffix-prefix, an item (tick or cross) occurring at the end of the list which had to be copied before recall of the stimulus list. With auditory stimuli and an auditory suffix-prefix there was a large and selective increase in the number of errors on the last few serial positions—the typical “suffix effect”. The suffix effect was not found with auditory stimuli and a visual suffix-prefix nor with a visual stimulus and an auditory suffix-prefix. These results are interpreted as supporting a model for short-term memory proposed by Crowder and Morton (1969) in which it is suggested that with serial recall information concerning the final items following auditory presentation has a different, precategorical, origin from that concerning other items.

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SAGE Publications

Tập 22 Số 2

167-176

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