scholarly journals Acoustic confusion of digits in memory and recognition

1973 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. T. Morgan ◽  
S. M. Chambers ◽  
J. Morton
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Confusion

Acoustic confusion in long term memory

1970 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 394-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael M. Gruneberg ◽  
S.J. Colwill ◽  
P. Winfrow ◽  
R.W. Woods
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Acoustic Confusion

Irrelevant Tapping and the Acoustic Confusion Effect

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 367-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Guérard ◽  
Annie Jalbert ◽  
Ian Neath ◽  
Aimée M. Surprenant ◽  
Tamra J. Bireta
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Pattern ◽  
Recall Performance ◽  
Recall Task ◽  
Acoustic Similarity ◽  
Simple Experiment ◽  
List Presentation ◽  
Confusion Effect ◽  
Acoustic Confusion ◽  
Serial Recall Task ◽  
The Difference

When items in a to-be-remembered list sound similar, recall performance is worse than when items are acoustically distinct, what is known as the acoustic confusion effect (ACE). When participants are asked to tap a syncopated rhythm during list presentation, the difference between the acoustically similar and dissimilar conditions is abolished; however, simple temporal and simple spatial tapping tasks have no effect. The objective of the present study is to examine whether spatial complexity is a property of the tapping task that interferes with the ACE. Participants were asked to tap a simple (Experiment 1) or a complex spatial pattern (Experiment 2) at a regular pace during a verbal serial recall task in which acoustic similarity was manipulated. The results showed that simple spatial tapping had no effect on the ACE, whereas complex spatial tapping significantly reduced the effect. Implications for three theories of memory are discussed.

Acoustic confusion in long term memory

1969 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 293-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael M. Gruneberg ◽  
Robert N. Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Acoustic Confusion

Neuropsychological Evidence of Visual Storage in Short-term Memory Tasks

1972 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth K. Warrington ◽  
T. Shallice
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Memory Span ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Verbal Material ◽  
Single Patient ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Immediate Memory ◽  
Acoustic Confusion ◽  
Visual Storage ◽  
Neuropsychological Evidence

Auditory and visual presentation of verbal material were compared in a single patient having an auditory verbal S.T.M. deficit. A Peterson short-term forgetting experiment and an immediate memory span task are reported. Striking differences in performance related to modality of input were obtained. Auditory short-term forgetting was more rapid, whereas with visual presentation short-term decay functions were relatively normal. With visual presentation there was no evidence of acoustic confusion errors but there was some evidence of visual confusion errors. The findings are interpreted in terms of a separate post-perceptual visual S.T.M. system.

INFORMATION, ACOUSTIC CONFUSION AND MEMORY SPAN

1964 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. CONRAD ◽  
A. J. HULL
Keyword(s):  
Memory Span ◽  
Acoustic Confusion
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