The interaction of word frequency and concreteness in immediate serial recall

Miller, Leonie M; Roodenrys, Steven

doi:10.3758/mc.37.6.850

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“…The finding of a frequency effect on item memory but not on order memory has been determined using a serial recall task (Poirier & Saint-Aubin, 1996;Miller & Roodenrys, 2009;Morin et al, 2006;Allen & Hulme, 2006). Thus, as previously suggested, an effect of frequency on order information could be masked by differences in item recall.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Further studies have supported this claim with no frequency effect on conditionalised order errors using pure lists (Allen & Hulme, 2006;Morin, Poirier, Fortin, & Hulme, 2006;Miller & Roodenrys, 2009) or mixed lists (Morin et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 87%

“…These results were interpreted as a long-term memory effect operating at output. More recently, Miller and Roodenrys (2009) found no influence of concreteness on memory for order using a conditional probability analysis of ISR data.…”

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The phonological neighbourhood effect on short-term memory for order

Clarkson

Roodenrys

Miller

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Memory

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Clarkson, Larissa, The phonological neighbourhood effect on short-term memory for order, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, 2013. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3841The phonological neighbourhood effect on short-term memory for order A AbstractVerbal short-term memory and long-term memory were once thought to be distinct processes, with short-term memory responsible for the maintenance and manipulation of verbal information in the immediate consciousness, and long-term memory responsible for storage of words and associated information over the lifespan.However, more recent research has suggested that the processes are intrinsically linked. The ability to learn novel items suggests that short-term memory is able to contribute to long-term memory, and recent findings also indicate that long-term memory has an influence on short-term memory. Typically, long-term memory is thought to assist the recall of items from short-term memory through a late stage redintegration process but does not influence the serial ordering of items in memory.More recently, one long-term memory variable, phonological neighbourhood density has been shown to influence memory for order in an immediate serial recall task with lists containing both large and small phonological neighbourhood words. This result has implications for the locus of the link between long-term memory and short-term memory, and is indicative of a link occurring earlier than assumed by most models of short-term memory. The aim of this thesis was to replicate evidence that phonological neighbourhood density is a variable that is sensitive to order processing and to identify the conditions under which this sensitivity appears. In a series of experiments, the effect of phonological neighbourhood density on memory for order was examined using tasks that varied in their requirement to recall order information or item information. Memory for order was better for words from large neighbourhoods than from small neighbourhoods, for pure lists but not for mixed lists in a task that reduces the requirement to remember item information, namely serial reconstruction. Further experiments using this paradigm revealed that this result was not due to differences in word lengths between large and small stimuli sets nor due to differences in reaction time to the items at output, and could not be attributed to different processes underlying immediate serial recall and serial reconstruction. The difference in memory for order between large-and small-phonological neighbourhood lists was found to disappear under conditions of articulatory suppression, suggesting that sub-vocal articulation acts as an intermediary between long-term memory and short-term memory. Finally, a second long-term memory variable, word frequency, was examined and was also shown to influence memory for iii order. This is indicative of a general long-term memory effect on short-term memory for order that has not been identified previously in the literature. These results are disc...

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The phonological neighbourhood effect on short-term memory for order

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Miller

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“…It has been proposed that these LTM contributions to immediate memory arise from redintegration processes wherein the partially decayed memory traces are reconstructed by sampling appropriate candidates from LTM (e.g., Hulme et al, 1997;Hulme, Newton, Cowan, Stuart, & Brown, 1999;Nairne, 2002;Schweickert, 1993). Under this view, the short-term phonological record itself is independent of lexical and semantic knowledge: LTM representations support recall only at the moment of retrieval by Bcleaning up^degraded phonological traces in memory through a process that matches partial traces and performs pattern completion (Miller & Roodenrys, 2009). Lexical effects would occur because nonwords, contrary to words, have no matching lexical representations in the language networks.…”

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Does learning to read shape verbal working memory?

Demoulin

Kolinsky

2015

Psychon Bull Rev

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Many experimental studies have investigated the relationship between the acquisition of reading and working memory in a unidirectional way, attempting to determine to what extent individual differences in working memory can predict reading achievement. In contrast, very little attention has been dedicated to the converse possibility that learning to read shapes the development of verbal memory processes. In this paper, we present available evidence that advocates a more prominent role for reading acquisition on verbal working memory and then discuss the potential mechanisms of such literacy effects. First, the early decoding activities might bolster the development of subvocal rehearsal, which, in turn, would enhance serial order performance in immediate memory tasks. In addition, learning to read and write in an alphabetical system allows the emergence of phonemic awareness and finely tuned phonological representations, as well as of orthographic representations. This could improve the quality, strength, and precision of lexical representations, and hence offer better support for the temporary encoding of memory items and/or for their retrieval.

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“…Lexical variables refer to "word properties, such as word frequency and concreteness, which reflect differences in the way in which words are represented in long-term or lexical memory" (Stuart & Hulme, 2009, p. 157). Lexical effects include the better recall of high-frequency words over lowfrequency words (the word frequency effect; see, e.g., Hulme, Stuart, Brown, & Morin, 2003;Roodenrys & Quinlan, 2000), of words over nonwords (the lexicality effect; see, e.g., Hulme, Maughan, & Brown, 1991;Multhaup, Balota, & Cowan, 1996), of concrete words over abstract words (the effect of word concreteness or imageability; see, e.g., Miller & Roodenrys, 2009;Walker & Hulme, 1999), and of semantically related words over unrelated words (the effect of semantic similarity; see, e.g., Poirier & Saint-Aubin, 1995;Tse, 2009). Saint-Aubin and Poirier (1999) showed that lexical variables modulate item retention.…”

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Revisiting backward recall and benchmark memory effects: a reply to Bireta et al. (2010)

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When participants are asked to recall lists of items in the reverse order, known as backward recall, several benchmark memory phenomena, such as the word length effect, are abolished (Bireta et al. Memory & Cognition 38:279-291, 2010). Bireta et al. (Memory & Cognition 38:279-291, 2010) suggested that in backward recall, reliance on order retention is increased at the expense of item retention, leading to the abolition of itembased phenomena. In a subsequent study, however, Guérard and Saint-Aubin (in press) showed that four lexical factors known to modulate item retention were unaffected by recall direction. In a series of five experiments, we examined the source of the discrepancy between the two studies. We revisited the effects of phonological similarity, word length, articulatory suppression, and irrelevant speech, using open and closed pools of words in backward and forward recall. The results are unequivocal in showing that none of these effects are influenced by recall direction, suggesting that Bireta et al. 's (Memory & Cognition 38:279-291, 2010) results are the consequence of their particular stimuli.

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The interaction of word frequency and concreteness in immediate serial recall

Cited by 52 publications

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The phonological neighbourhood effect on short-term memory for order

The phonological neighbourhood effect on short-term memory for order

Does learning to read shape verbal working memory?

Revisiting backward recall and benchmark memory effects: a reply to Bireta et al. (2010)

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