The contribution to immediate serial recall of rehearsal, search speed, access to lexical memory, and phonological coding: an investigation at the construct level

Tehan, Gerald and Fogarty, Gerard J. and Ryan, Katherine (2004) The contribution to immediate serial recall of rehearsal, search speed, access to lexical memory, and phonological coding: an investigation at the construct level. Memory and Cognition, 32 (5). pp. 711-721. ISSN 0090-502X

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Abstract

[Abstract]: Rehearsal speed has traditionally been seen to be the prime determinant of individual
differences in memory span. Recent studies, in the main using young children as the
participant population, have suggested other contributors to span performance,
notably contributions from long-term memory and forgetting and retrieval processes
occurring during recall. In the current research we used structural equation modelling
to explore at the construct level individual differences in immediate serial recall with
respect to rehearsal, search, and speed of access to lexical memory. We replicate
standard short-term phenomena; we show that the variables that influence children's
span performance influence adult performance in the same way; and we show that
lexical memory access appears to be a more potent source of individual differences in
immediate memory than either rehearsal speed or search factors.

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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. http://www.psychonomic.org/access.htm
Faculty / Department / School:	Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Psychology
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2007 00:31
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2013 22:35
Uncontrolled Keywords:	rehearsal speed, memory span, structural equation modelling, construct level
Fields of Research :	13 Education > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education > 130309 Learning Sciences 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1701 Psychology > 170103 Educational Psychology
URI:	http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/928

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