scholarly journals The phonological similarity effect in immediate recall: Positions of shared phonemes

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 1116-1125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojian Li ◽  
Richard Schweickert ◽  
Jack Gandour
Keyword(s):  
Phonological Similarity ◽  
Immediate Recall ◽  
Phonological Similarity Effect ◽  
Similarity Effect

Phonological Similarity, Pronunciation Rate, and Memory Span

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Schweickert ◽  
Lawrence Guentert ◽  
Lora Hersberger
Keyword(s):  
Word Length ◽  
Memory Span ◽  
Phonological Similarity ◽  
Length Effect ◽  
Rate Difference ◽  
Immediate Recall ◽  
Word Length Effect ◽  
Phonological Similarity Effect ◽  
Similarity Effect ◽  
Special Case

Memory span is smaller for (a) items taking longer to pronounce and (b) phonologically more similar items. We investigated the relation between the two effects. Chase (1977) found that phonologically similar items were pronounced more slowly than dissimilar ones in a pronunciation task. A pronunciation rate difference in immediate recall could explain the phonological similarity effect as a special case of the word-length effect. Instead, the study found that pronunciation rates were equal. In the equation s = rt, span equals pronunciation rate times trace duration, word-length affects r while phonological similarity affects t. The two effects are shown to be complementary.

scholarly journals Repetition inhibition and facilitation effects for visual-verbal stimuli under conditions of concurrent articulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 817-823
Author(s):  
Andrew J Johnson ◽  
Ryan Hawley ◽  
Christopher Miles
Keyword(s):  
Serial Recall ◽  
Phonological Similarity ◽  
Repeated Item ◽  
Recall Accuracy ◽  
Immediate Serial Recall ◽  
Verbal Stimuli ◽  
Phonological Similarity Effect ◽  
Original Presentation ◽  
Similarity Effect ◽  
Facilitated Recall

This study examines the effects of within-sequence repetitions for visually presented consonants under conditions of quiet and concurrent articulation (CA). In an immediate serial recall (ISR) procedure, participants wrote down the six consonants in the order of original presentation. CA reduced serial recall and abolished the phonological similarity effect. However, the effects of within-trial repetitions were broadly similar under quiet and CA. Specifically, adjacent repetitions facilitated recall of the repeated item, whereas spaced repetitions (separated by three intervening items) impaired recall accuracy for the repeated item (i.e., the Ranschburg effect). These data are the first to demonstrate the Ranschburg effect for visual-verbal stimuli under CA.

The phonological similarity effect in serial recognition

Memory ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 773-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Nimmo ◽  
Steven Roodenrys
Keyword(s):  
Phonological Similarity ◽  
Phonological Similarity Effect ◽  
Similarity Effect

scholarly journals Do item-dependent context representations underlie serial order in cognition? Commentary on Logan (2021)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam F Osth ◽  
Mark J. Hurlstone
Keyword(s):  
Mixed List ◽  
Serial Order ◽  
Phonological Similarity ◽  
Output Stage ◽  
Temporal Grouping ◽  
Phonological Similarity Effect ◽  
Similarity Effect ◽  
Serial Position Curves ◽  
Rule Out ◽  
Complete Account

Logan (2021) presented an impressive unification of serial order tasks including whole report, typing, and serial recall in the form of the context retrieval and updating (CRU) model. Despite the wide breadth of the model’s coverage, its reliance on encoding and retrieving context representations that consist of the previous items may prevent it from being able to address a number of critical benchmark findings in the serial order literature that have shaped and constrained existing theories. In this commentary, we highlight three major challenges that motivated the development of a rival class of models of serial order, namely positional models. These challenges include the mixed-list phonological similarity effect, the protrusion effect, and interposition errors in temporal grouping. Simulations indicated that CRU can address the mixed list phonological similarity effect if phonological confusions can occur during its output stage, suggesting that the serial position curves from this paradigm do not rule out models that rely on inter-item associations, as has been previously been suggested. The other two challenges are more consequential for the model’s representations, and simulations indicated the model was not able to provide a complete account of them. We highlight and discuss how revisions to CRU’s representations or retrieval mechanisms can address these phenomena and emphasize that a fruitful direction forward would be to either incorporate positional representations or approximate them with its existing representations.

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