Order recall in verbal short-term memory : The role of semantic networks
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Poirier, Marie, Saint-Aubin, Jean, Mair, Ali, Tehan, Gerry and Tolan, Anne. (2015). Order recall in verbal short-term memory : The role of semantic networks. Memory and Cognition. 43, pp. 489-499. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-014-0470-6
Authors | Poirier, Marie, Saint-Aubin, Jean, Mair, Ali, Tehan, Gerry and Tolan, Anne |
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Abstract | In their recent article, Acheson, MacDonald, and Postle (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 37:44–59, 2011) made an important but controversial suggestion: They hypothesized that (a) semantic information has an effect on order information in short-term memory (STM) and (b) order recall in STM is based on the level of activation of items within the relevant lexico-semantic long-term memory (LTM) network. However, verbal STM research has typically led to the conclusion that factors such as semantic category have a large effect on the number of correctly recalled items, but little or no impact on order recall (Poirier & Saint-Aubin, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 48A:384–404, 1995; Saint-Aubin, Ouellette, & Poirier, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 12:171–177, 2005; Tse, Memory 17:874–891, 2009). Moreover, most formal models of short-term order memory currently suggest a separate mechanism for order coding—that is, one that is separate from item representation and not associated with LTM lexico-semantic networks. Both of the experiments reported here tested the predictions that we derived from Acheson et al. The findings show that, as predicted, manipulations aiming to affect the activation of item representations significantly impacted order memory. |
Keywords | short-term memory; working memory; order recall; immediate memory; activated long-term memory |
Year | 2015 |
Journal | Memory and Cognition |
Journal citation | 43, pp. 489-499 |
Publisher | Springer |
ISSN | 0090-502X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-014-0470-6 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-84937868644 |
Open access | Published as green open access |
Page range | 489-499 |
Author's accepted manuscript | License All rights reserved File Access Level Open |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 10 Oct 2014 |
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