Memory search for lexical and semantic information

Juola, James F.; Mcdermott, Dennis A.

doi:10.1016/0022-5371(76)90051-7

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“…The present results are consistent with the Juola and Atkinson (1971) and Juola and McDermott (1976) finding that category search is slower than word search. Those two studies, however, found evidence for exhaustive search in both category and word search.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Because visual search research has been conducted using large amounts of training with variably mapped letters (e.g., Kristofferson, 1972;Schneider & Shiffrin, 1977), that condition was not included in the present experimental series. The first experiment, then, is a replication of previous VM category and word search experiments (see Juola & Atkinson, 197,1;Juola A McDermott, 1976;McFarland et al, 1974). However, in the previous studies subjects received a maximum of 240 trials of training.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Present results in the literature suggest such parallels. VM category search studies have shown that reaction time increases substantially with the number of categories sought (Juola & Atkinson, 1971;Juola & McDermott, 1976;McFarland, Kellas, Klueger, & Juola, 1974) with slopes ranging from 89 to 210 msec per category. Neisser and Beller (1965) have shown substantial practice effects in CM category search.…”

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confidence: 99%

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This research examines how the major phenomena of visual search for single characters generalize to word search and word-category search. Experiment 1 examined word and category visual search when the target and distractor sets had a varied mapping (VM) across trials. Reaction time was a linear function of the number of comparisons with a positive slope of 48 msec per word, 92 msec per category. The VM reaction time data indicated a self-terminating comparison process, and there was little or no improvement with practice. Experiment 2 examined search with a consistent mapping (CM) between targets and distractors. Category search slope dropped to 2 msec, and the function became nonlinear. Word search slope dropped to 18 msec, but the function became nonlinear. Word search slope dropped to 18 msec, but the function was still linear. Experiment 3 examined category detection carried out concurrently with serial recall of digits, allowing assessment of search performance under high workload. High workload caused a severe performance reduction in VM category search, and this decrement did not decrease with practice. High workload reduced initial performance in CM category search, but this decrement was eliminated with practice. The present category search results are similar to previous letter search results. Four principles of search are discussed in the context of a theory of automatic/control processing.

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confidence: 92%