Creating proactive interference in immediate recall: building a dog from a dart, a mop and a fig

Tehan, Gerald and Humphreys, Michael S. (1998) Creating proactive interference in immediate recall: building a dog from a dart, a mop and a fig. Memory and Cognition, 26. pp. 477-489. ISSN 0090-502X

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Abstract

[Abstract]: Phonemic codes are accorded a privileged role in most current models of immediate serial recall, although their effects are apparent in short-term proactive interference (PI) effects as well. The current research looks at how assumptions concerning distributed representation and distributed storage involving both semantic and phonemic codes might be operationalized to produce PI in a short-term cued recall task. The four experiments reported here attempted to generate the phonemic characteristics of a non-rhyming, interfering foil from unrelated filler items in the same list. PI was observed when a rhyme of the foil was studied or when the three phonemes of the foil were distributed across three studied filler items. The results suggest that items in short-term memory are stored in terms of feature bundles and that all items are simultaneously available at retrieval.

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Item Type:	Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C)
Refereed:	Yes
Item Status:	Live Archive
Additional Information:	Deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
Depositing User:	Assoc Prof Gerry Tehan
Faculty / Department / School:	Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Psychology
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2007 00:54
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2013 22:41
Uncontrolled Keywords:	immediate recall, phonemic codes, proactive interference, short-term memory
Fields of Research :	17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1701 Psychology > 170103 Educational Psychology
URI:	http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/1969

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