Word-frequency effects on short-term memory tasks: Evidence for a redintegration process in immediate serial recall
Word-frequency effects on short-term memory tasks: Evidence for a redintegration process in immediate serial recall
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DOI:
10.1037/0278-7393.23.5.1217
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发表时间:
1997-09-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Stuart, G
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作者:
Hulme, C;Roodenrys, S;Stuart, G
Four experiments investigated the mechanisms responsible for the advantage enjoyed by high-frequency words in short-term memory tasks. Experiment 1 demonstrated effects of word frequency on memory span that were independent of differences in speech rate. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that word frequency has an increasing effect on serial recall across serial positions, but Experiment 4 showed that this effect was abolished for backward recall. A model that includes a redintegration process that operates to ''clean up'' decayed short-term memory traces is proposed, and the multinomial processing tree model described by R. Schweickert (1993) is used to provide a quantitative fit to data from Experiments 2, 3, and 4.