Post-categorical processing and attenuation of the auditory suffix: Evidence from both immediate and delayed suffixes

Miles, Christopher; Westley, David P; Buller, Mark J.

doi:10.1016/0001-6918(94)00049-m

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“…These six findings have been mutually reinforcing, and it is fair to say that two-component theory has been widely accepted (Baddeley & Hull, 1979;Balota & Engle, 1981;Cowan, 1984;Engle, 1980;Greene, 1991Greene, , 1992Greene & Crowder, 1988;Greene, Elliott, & Smith, 1988;Harris, 1989;Nairne, 1990;Penney, 1985Penney, ,1989Penney & Godsell, 1993; M. J. Watkins & Sechler, 1989; see also Campbell, Garwood, & Rosen, 1988;Crowder, 1986;Greenberg & Engle, 1983;LeCompte & Watkins, 1993;Miles, Westley, & Buller, 1995;Morton, 1976;Morton & Holloway, 1970;Neath, Surprenant, & Crowder, 1993). Indeed, to our knowledge it has never "been challenged.…”

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Two-component theory of the suffix effect: Contrary findings.

Bloom¹,

Watkins²

1999

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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The suffix effect is the reduction in the recallability of the last few items of a just-spoken list caused by appending a nominally irrelevant item, or suffix. The effect is widely assumed to comprise a "structural" terminal component, affecting just the last item, and a strategy-sensitive preterminal component. In a series of 8 experiments, the authors fail to replicate any of a variety of findings widely cited as the empirical basis for this 2-component theory. The authors also question the support that earlier findings provide for the theory, even if they had proved replicable. They attribute the entire suffix effect to the grouping of the suffix with the list items.

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Two-component theory of the suffix effect: Contrary findings.

Bloom¹,

Watkins²

1999

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…These authors suggest that a discrete tactile stimulus produces a sensory representation that diminishes over time in a manner consistent with the fading of an echoic trace (Crowder, 1978; Crowder & Morton, 1969). While we acknowledge that sensory echoic memory may persist for up to 20 s following serial presentation (see, e.g., Miles, Westley, & Buller, 1995; Watkins & Todres, 1980; Watkins & Watkins, 1980; but see Balota & Duchek, 1986,for a different view), all single-stimulus studies in the tactile modality have reported a decrease in recall accuracy after only a 10-s delay; indeed in one instance, asymptote in recall accuracy was reached following a 5-s delay (Sullivan & Turvey, 1972). We were therefore confident that a filled 10-s delay was sufficient to allow the contents of a tactile sensory memory to fade.…”

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Memorial and strategic determinants of tactile recency.

Mahrer

Miles²

1999

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Across 4 experiments, recency arising from the presentation of 5-item tactile lists was assessed with immediate and delayed recall with or without a same-modality suffix. The lists were presented with or without concurrent verbalization and at rates varying from 0.5 s to 2 s per item. Delaying recall or the addition of a suffix impaired recency both in the absence of concurrent verbalization during list presentation and at the 1-s presentation rate. In contrast, both concurrent verbalization during list presentation and a 0.5-s presentation rate restored recency for both the delayed recall and suffix conditions. This pattern of data is problematic for sensory memory and for trace discriminability accounts of modality and suffix effects. It is suggested that a sensory memory account together with an attention-biasing strategy by which limited encoding resources are diverted toward the terminal list item can better accommodate the data.

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Two-component theory of the suffix effect: Contrary evidence

Bloom

2006

Memory & Cognition

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The suffix effect is the selective impairment in recall of the final items of a spoken list when the list is followed by a nominally irrelevant speech item, or suffix. It is widely assumed to comprise a bottomup, or structural, effect restricted to the terminal item and a top-down, or conceptually sensitive, effect confined to the preterminal items. Reported here are eight experiments that challenge this view by demonstrating that the terminal suffix effect, as well as the preterminal suffix effect, is susceptible to conceptual influence. The entire suffix effect may be better conceived of as a phenomenon arising from perceptual grouping.

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Post-categorical processing and attenuation of the auditory suffix: Evidence from both immediate and delayed suffixes

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

Two-component theory of the suffix effect: Contrary findings.

Two-component theory of the suffix effect: Contrary findings.

Memorial and strategic determinants of tactile recency.

Two-component theory of the suffix effect: Contrary evidence

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