Serial position functions for recognition of olfactory stimuli

Johnson, Andrew James and Miles, Christopher 2007. Serial position functions for recognition of olfactory stimuli. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 60 (10) , pp. 1347-1355. 10.1080/17470210701515694

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Abstract

Two experiments examined item recognition memory for sequentially presented odours. Following a sequence of six odours participants were immediately presented with a series of two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) test odours. The test pairs were presented in either the same order as learning or the reverse order of learning. Method of testing was either blocked (Experiment 1) or mixed (Experiment 2). Both experiments demonstrated extended recency, with an absence of primacy, for the reverse testing procedure. In contrast, the forward testing procedure revealed a null effect of serial position. The finding of extended recency is inconsistent with the single-item recency predicted by the two-component duplex theory (Phillips & Christie, 1977). We offer an alternative account of the data in which recognition accuracy is better accommodated by the cumulative number of items presented between item learning and item test.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	1747-0218
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2023 16:17
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/32783

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