Memorial and strategic determinants of tactile recency

Mahrer, Paul and Miles, Christopher 1999. Memorial and strategic determinants of tactile recency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition 25 (3) , pp. 630-643. 10.1037/0278-7393.25.3.630

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Abstract

Across 4 experiments, recency arising from the presentation of 5-item tactile lists was assessed with immediate and delayed recall with or without a same-modality suffix. The lists were presented with or without concurrent verbalization and at rates varying from 0.5 s to 2 s per item. Delaying recall or the addition of a suffix impaired recency both in the absence of concurrent verbalization during list presentation and at the 1-s presentation rate. In contrast, both concurrent verbalization during list presentation and a 0.5-s presentation rate restored recency for both the delayed recall and suffix conditions. This pattern of data is problematic for sensory memory and for trace discriminability accounts of modality and suffix effects. It is suggested that a sensory memory account together with an attention-biasing strategy by which limited encoding resources are diverted toward the terminal list item can better accommodate the data.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	0278-7393
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 22:59
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/34523

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