Parmentier, Fabrice B., Tremblay, Sebastien and Jones, Dylan Marc  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8783-5542
2004.
Exploring the suffix effect in serial visuospatial short-term memory.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
11
(2)
, pp. 289-295.
10.3758/BF03196572
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Abstract
The suffix effect--the loss of recency induced by a redundant end-of-list item--was studied in a visuospatial serial recall task involving the memory for the position of dots on a screen. A visuospatial suffix markedly impaired recall of the last to-be-remembered dot. The impact on recall was roughly of equal magnitude whether the suffix shared attributes with the to-be-remembered dots (Experiment 1) or was visually distinct (Experiments 2 and 3). Although the presence of a tone suffix also impaired serial memory for the last items in the sequence, the impact of a visuospatial suffix was more marked, implying a specific as well as a possible general effect of suffix in the visuospatial domain (Experiment 4). The suffix effect seems not to be a phenomenon confined to verbal material but rather a universal phenomenon possibly related to grouping.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Psychology |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Additional Information: | This work was supported in the form of a project grant to D.M.J. from the Defence Evaluation & Research Agency (Farnborough, Hampshire), Centre for Human Sciences, and by QR support from the University of Plymouth to F.B.R.P. |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| ISSN: | 1069-9384 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 09:08 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/35402 |
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