The Latency and Duration of Rapid Movement Sequences: Comparisons of Speech and Typewriting

Sternberg, Saul; Monsell, Stephen; Knoll, Ronald L.; Wright, Charles E.

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“…Consequently, regardless of whether these durations come from sources such as manual stopwatch timing or examination of acoustic waveform records, they may be reasonably veridical insofar as they conform to Equation B1 and are quantified appropriately in terms of its parameters (e.g., see Footnote 18). B1 In contrast to our current analysis, Sternberg et al (1978) concluded that total articulation times for memorized word sequences could be fit well by a quadratic function of sequence length. However, we have found that an exponential function (i.e., Equation B1) provides more interpretable parameter values under the conditions of our experiments, and it fits our data slightly better than does a quadratic function.…”

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Theoretical Implications of Articulatory Duration, Phonological Similarity, and Phonological Complexity in Verbal Working Memory.

Mueller¹,

Seymour²,

Kieras³

et al. 2003

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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The phonological-loop model provides a prominent theoretical description of verbal working memory. According to it, serial recall accuracy should be inversely related to the articulatory duration and phonological similarity of verbal items in memorized sequences. Initial tests of these predictions by A. D. Baddeley and colleagues (e.g., A. D. Baddeley, N. Thomson, & M. Buchanan, 1975) appeared to support the phonological-loop model, but subsequent researchers have obtained conflicting data that putatively disconfirm its assumptions. Such conflicts may have stemmed from less than ideal measurements of articulatory duration and phonological similarity. This article discusses these concerns and proposes new theoretically principled methods for measuring articulatory duration and phonological similarity. Two experiments that used these methods in the context of a verbal serial recall task are reported. The results of these experiments confirm and extend the predictions of the phonological-loop model while disarming previous criticisms of it.

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“…Sternberg et al, 1978). It may also contain contributions of speech preparation and recording biases that are independent of word set and sequence length.…”

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Theoretical Implications of Articulatory Duration, Phonological Similarity, and Phonological Complexity in Verbal Working Memory.

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“…However, empirical evidence suggests that feedback mechanisms are too slow to accommodate such a reliance on feedback (e.g. Sternberg, Monsell, Knoll & Wright, 1978). Greenwald (1970) consequently suggested that instead of the sensory effects, the anticipated action effects of the preceding action should be associated to those of the next action, thereby circumventing the criticism.…”

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The developing cognitive substrate of sequential action control in 9- to 12-month-olds: Evidence for concurrent activation models

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Paulus²,

Spapé

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“…Phonological encoding comprises the assembly of the sounds of words and the generation of intonation. The articulatory buffer is capable of storing motor representations of syllable strings in advance of overt articulation (Sternberg, Monsell, Knoll, & Wright, 1978). Contextual speech errors occur during the manipulation of the grammatical and phonological representations.…”

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Language production and serial order: A functional analysis and a model.

Dell¹,

Burger²,

Svec³

1997

Psychological Review

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In speech production, previously spoken and upcoming words can impinge on the word currently being said, resulting in perseverations (e.g., "beef needle soup" ) and anticipations (e.g., "cuff of coffee" ). These errors reveal the extent to which the language-production system is focused on the past, the present, and the future and therefore are informative about how the system deals with serial order. This article offers a functional analysis of serial order in language and develops a general formal model. The centerpiece of the model is a prediction that the fraction of serial-order errors that are anticipatory, as opposed to perseveratory, can be closely predicted by overall error rate. The lower the error rate, the more anticipatory the errors are, regardless of the factors influencing error rate. The model is successfully applied to experimental and natural error data dealing with the effects of practice, speech rate, individual differences, age, and brain damage.More than 45 years ago, Lashley ( 1951 ) directed the attention of psychologists to the problem of serial order. Ordered behavior, he wrote, cannot simply be the product of associations between elementary responses. Instead, there must be a hierarchically organized plan or schema that is separate from the responses and yet determines their order. Although it took some time for Lashley's paper to be appreciated (Bruce, 1994), his insights are now acknowledged to be central to theory in memory (e.g., Murdock, 1974), psycholinguisties (e.g., Levelt, 1989;MacKay, 1987), and motor control (e.g., Rosenbaum, 1990).This article examines the nature of order schemata in that behavior in which the serial-ordering problems are perhaps most acute, in language. We begin by reviewing evidence from serialorder errors in speech, particularly errors in which sounds or words are either anticipated, spoken ahead of their time, or perseverated, produced later than they should be. This evidence suggests that the past and future often impinge on the present while we are speaking and that the extent to which the languageproduction system is focused on the past or the future depends on a number of factors.We then present an experimental study of one of these factors, Gary S. Dell and Lisa K. Burger, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; William R. Svec, Department of Psychology, Indiana University Bloomington.This research was supported by National Science Foundation Grant SBR 93-19368 and National Institutes of Health Grants DC-00191 and HD 21011 and grew out of a project involving Gary S. Dell, Myrna Schwartz, Eleanor Saffran, and Nadine Martin.We are grateful for the advice of David Adams, Howard Berenbaum, Gary Bradshaw, Kay Bock, Cooper Cutting, Vic Ferreira, Zenzi Griffin, Susan Garnsey, Anita Govindjee, Prahlad Gupta, John Huitema, Gordon Logan, Gregory Murphy, Neal Pearlmutter, Brian Ross, Christine Sevald, and Ulrich Schade and for the contributions of Linda May, Julie Owles, and the Beckman Institute.Correspondence concerning this article ...

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The Latency and Duration of Rapid Movement Sequences: Comparisons of Speech and Typewriting

Cited by 722 publications

References 25 publications

Theoretical Implications of Articulatory Duration, Phonological Similarity, and Phonological Complexity in Verbal Working Memory.

Theoretical Implications of Articulatory Duration, Phonological Similarity, and Phonological Complexity in Verbal Working Memory.

The developing cognitive substrate of sequential action control in 9- to 12-month-olds: Evidence for concurrent activation models

Language production and serial order: A functional analysis and a model.

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