scholarly journals Absence of specific retroactive interference effects of acoustic similarity in short-term memory

1970 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Jeffrey Laverty ◽  
M. T. Turvey
Keyword(s):  
Retroactive Interference ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Acoustic Similarity ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory

Effect of Interpolated Temporal Activity on Temporal Short-Term Memory

1988 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 743-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Guay ◽  
Alan W. Salmoni
Keyword(s):  
Retroactive Interference ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Time Estimation ◽  
Temporal Information ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Information Recall ◽  
Counting Strategy ◽  
Criterion Duration

The purpose of this research was to determine the retroactive interference effects of a single interpolated task (i.e., one temporal duration) on the retention of a criterion duration. This research is of interest because the mnemonic structure of temporal information of different durations is uncertain. Previous research has indicated that there might be a difference in structure for durations of 1 and 4 sec., although the results are inconsistent. Thus, two criterion durations of 1 and 4 sec. and five interpolated durations (i.e., 60%, 80%, 100%, 120%, and 140% of the duration of the criterion) were utilized under the method of reproduction. In addition, subjects were instructed to use either a counting strategy or none (referred to as conscious time estimation) to facilitate the retention of the temporal information. Recall was less variable when using a counting strategy than not and when estimating 1 sec. than 4 sec. However, there was no effect of interpolated activity when comparing performance across different interpolated conditions (no interpolated activity). Apparently, one interpolated duration is not sufficient to produce structural interference with a single criterion duration.

Interference effects in schizophrenic short-term memory.

1976 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Bauman ◽  
Eugene Kolisnyk
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory

scholarly journals Retroactive Interference in Short-term Memory

Nature ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 203 (4952) ◽  
pp. 1408-1408 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. A. DALE
Keyword(s):  
Retroactive Interference ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory

scholarly journals Rate of presentation and the acoustic similarity effect in short-term memory

1966 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 233-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Conrad ◽  
A. D. Baddeley ◽  
A. J. Hull
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Acoustic Similarity ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Similarity Effect

Short-term Retention of Tactile Stimulation

1972 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith V. Sullivan ◽  
M. T. Turvey
Keyword(s):  
Tactile Stimulation ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Task Condition ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Arithmetic Task ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Term Retention ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Rest Condition

In three experiments subjects were required to reproduce after varying delays the locus of a tactile stimulation delivered to the upper-side of the arm. During the retention periods subjects either performed a subsidiary, arithmetic task or rested. Recall, as measured by accuracy in reproducing the locus of stimulation, decreased as a function of retention interval, asymptoting after approximately 5 s. Performance was poorer in the subsidiary task condition than in the rest condition; however, the effect of the subsidiary task appeared to be more on subject recall strategies than on rehearsal capacity. No evidence of proactive interference effects was found, and a decay interpretation of forgetting of discrete tactile stimuli in the short-term memory distractor paradigm was favoured.

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