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Word-frequency effects on short-term memory tasks : evidence for a redintegration process in immediate serial recall
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Hulme, Charles, Roodenrys, Steven , Schweickert, Richard , Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.), Martin, Sarah and Stuart, George (1997) Word-frequency effects on short-term memory tasks : evidence for a redintegration process in immediate serial recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol.23 (No.5). pp. 1217-1232. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.23.5.1217 ISSN 0278-7393.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.23.5.1217
Abstract
Four experiments investigated the mechanisms responsible for the advantage enjoyed by high-frequency words in short-term memory tasks. Experiment 1 demonstrated effects of word frequency on memory span that were independent of differences in speech rate. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that word frequency has an increasing effect on serial recall across serial positions, but Experiment 4 showed that this effect was abolished for backward recall. A model that includes a redintegration process that operates to ''clean up'' decayed short-term memory traces is proposed, and the multinomial processing tree model described by R. Schweickert (1993) is used to provide a quantitative fit to data from Experiments 2, 3, and 4.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Short-term memory, Recollection (Psychology), Language and languages -- Word frequency, Phonetics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition | ||||
Publisher: | American Psychological Association | ||||
ISSN: | 0278-7393 | ||||
Official Date: | September 1997 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.23 | ||||
Number: | No.5 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 16 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1217-1232 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1037/0278-7393.23.5.1217 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF) | ||||
Grant number: | R000232576 (ESRC), R000236216 (ESRC), 9123865-DBS (NSF) |
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