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Abstract
Our goal is not to present a new theory of verbal short-term memory (vSTM), but to supplant the concept used to explain performance for some 60 years. We view vSTM and its concomitant processes as reifications from observations of performance in vSTM tasks. Millennia of refining, elaborating and utilising symbolic technologies for representing speech has seduced us into viewing verbal behavior as embodying the hallmarks of such symbolic systems, setting it apart from other types of physical material with which we interact. Contrarily, we maintain that verbal material be seen in the same light as other material. The way in which we encounter and manipulate it (e.g., in the microcosm of the vSTM setting) is to be understood with respect to processes that organise material into perceptual objects that may then be apprehended and manipulated by bodily effector systems. We outline how key empirical hallmarks of vSTM yield to this approach.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Psychology |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing |
ISSN: | 0963-7214 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 5 February 2018 |
Date of Acceptance: | 31 January 2018 |
Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2023 19:25 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/108784 |
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