Serial memory: Putting chains and position codes in context.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon D. Logan ◽  
Gregory E. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Serial Memory

The Effect of Path Length and Display Size on Memory for Spatial Information

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Guérard ◽  
Sébastien Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
Path Length ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Recall Performance ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Length Effect ◽  
Serial Memory ◽  
Fixed Reference ◽  
A Minor

In serial memory for spatial information, some studies showed that recall performance suffers when the distance between successive locations increases relatively to the size of the display in which they are presented (the path length effect; e.g., Parmentier et al., 2005) but not when distance is increased by enlarging the size of the display (e.g., Smyth & Scholey, 1994). In the present study, we examined the effect of varying the absolute and relative distance between to-be-remembered items on memory for spatial information. We manipulated path length using small (15″) and large (64″) screens within the same design. In two experiments, we showed that distance was disruptive mainly when it is varied relatively to a fixed reference frame, though increasing the size of the display also had a small deleterious effect on recall. The insertion of a retention interval did not influence these effects, suggesting that rehearsal plays a minor role in mediating the effects of distance on serial spatial memory. We discuss the potential role of perceptual organization in light of the pattern of results.

Configural Determinants of Visuospatial Serial Memory Performance

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrice B. R. Parmentier ◽  
Greg Elford ◽  
Dylan M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Memory Performance ◽  
Serial Memory

The hippocampus and prefrontal cortex are differentially involved in serial memory retrieval in non-stress and stress conditions

2009 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Chauveau ◽  
Christophe Piérard ◽  
Christophe Tronche ◽  
Mathieu Coutan ◽  
Isabelle Drouet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Memory Retrieval ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Serial Memory

The Role of Hand Movement in Spatial Serial Order Memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-335
Author(s):  
Yangke Zhao ◽  
Chuansheng Chen ◽  
Xiuying Qian
Keyword(s):  
Hand Movement ◽  
Serial Order ◽  
Hand Movements ◽  
Facilitation Effect ◽  
Serial Memory ◽  
Backward Recall ◽  
Passive Viewing ◽  
Memory Experiment ◽  
Serial Order Memory

Abstract Research on serial order memory has traditionally used tasks where participants passively view the items. A few studies that included hand movement showed that such movement interfered with serial order memory. In the present study of three experiments, we investigated whether and how hand movements improved spatial serial order memory. Experiment 1 showed that manual tracing (i.e., hand movements that traced the presentation of stimuli on the modified eCorsi block tapping task) improved the performance of backward recall as compared to no manual tracing (the control condition). Experiment 2 showed that the facilitation effect resulted from voluntary hand movements and could not be achieved via passive viewing of another person’s manual tracing. Experiment 3 showed that it was the temporal, not the spatial, signal within manual tracing that facilitated spatial serial memory.

The magic number four: Can it explain Sternberg's serial memory scan data?

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerwen Jou
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Magic Number ◽  
Linear Increase ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Set Size ◽  
Serial Memory ◽  
Capacity Limit ◽  
Capacity Theory ◽  
Sternberg Paradigm ◽  
Scan Data

Cowan's concept of a pure short-term memory (STM) capacity limit is equivalent to that of memory subitizing. However, a robust phenomenon well known in the Sternberg paradigm, that is, the linear increase of RT as a function of memory set size is not consistent with this concept. Cowan's STM capacity theory will remain incomplete until it can account for this phenomenon.

Hemispheric asymmetry, early visual processes, and serial memory comparison

1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W O'Boyle ◽  
Joseph B Hellige
Keyword(s):  
Hemispheric Asymmetry ◽  
Serial Memory ◽  
Visual Processes

Knowledge of the Ordinal Position of List Items in Rhesus Monkeys

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaofu Chen ◽  
Karyl B. Swartz ◽  
H.S. Terrace
Keyword(s):  
Rhesus Monkeys ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Ordinal Position ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Ordinal Information ◽  
Serial Memory ◽  
Serial Task ◽  
List Learning ◽  
Extensive List ◽  
Do So

What is learned during mastery of a serial task: associations between adjacent and remote items, associations between an item and its ordinal position, or both? A clear answer to this question is lacking in the literature on human serial memory because it is difficult to control for a “naive” subject's linguistic competence and extensive experience with serial tasks. In this article, we present evidence that rhesus monkeys encode the ordinal positions of items of an arbitrary list when there is no requirement to do so. First, monkeys learned four nonverbal lists (1–4), each containing four novel items (photographs of natural objects). The monkeys then learned four 4-item lists that were derived exclusively and exhaustively from Lists 1 through 4, one item from each list. On two derived lists, each item's original ordinal position was maintained. Those lists were acquired with virtually no errors. The two remaining derived lists, on which the original ordinal position of each item was changed, were as difficult to learn as novel lists. The immediate acquisition of lists on which ordinal position was maintained shows that knowledge of ordinal position can develop without the benefit of language, extensive list-learning experience, or explicit instruction to encode ordinal information.

A new quantitative method in analysing the experiments on short term serial memory

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 460-464
Author(s):  
Xiaowei Tang ◽  
Xiangchuan Chen ◽  
Daren Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Serial Memory
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