Short-term retention of simple motor responses: Similarity of prior and succeeding responses.

1971 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Craft ◽  
James V. Hinrichs
Keyword(s):  
Short Term ◽  
Motor Responses ◽  
Simple Motor ◽  
Term Retention

Short-term retention and working memory in schizophrenia

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
R. Hijman ◽  
H.E. Hulshoff Pol ◽  
W.F.C. Baaré ◽  
J. van der Linden ◽  
R.S. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Retention

Short Term Retention of Sentences

1971 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Boakes ◽  
B. Lodwick
Keyword(s):  
Digit Span ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Immediate Memory ◽  
Term Retention ◽  
Digit Sequence ◽  
General Store ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Digit Recall ◽  
Condition B

A series of experiments was performed on the interaction between the short-term retention of sentences and of digits. In Experiment I a digit span method was used whereby subjects were presented with a sentence followed by a sequence of digits and were required either (a) to recall the sentence first and then the digits or (b) to recall the digits followed by the sentence. Under condition (a) prior recall of the sentence reduced the percentage of digit sequences correctly recalled, while under condition (b) retention of the sentence appeared to have no effect on digit recall. This last finding was confirmed in Experiment II, where the sentences varied both in grammatical complexity and length. In Experiment III the effect of prior recall of a sentence on the recall of digits was found to depend on the type of sentence used. A correlation was observed between the size of this effect and the time taken to recall a sentence. The rate of forgetting suggested by this observation was comparable to that obtained in Experiment IV, where subjects performed an intervening task that did not involve immediate memory for sentences in the interval between the presentation and recall of a six-digit sequence. It was concluded from these results that the short-term retention of sentences and of lists of items cannot be explained in terms of some general store of limited capacity.

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