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The Contribution of Executive Functions to Naming Digits, Objects, and Words
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Altani, Angeliki; Protopapas, Athanassios; Georgiou, George K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Although it is established that reading fluency is more strongly related to serial naming of symbols than to naming of isolated items ("serial superiority effect"), the reason for the difference remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of executive functions in explaining the serial superiority effect. One…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Naming, Reading Fluency, Serial Ordering
Beginning at the Beginning: Recall Order and the Number of Words to Be Recalled
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Tan, Lydia; Ward, Geoff; Paulauskaite, Laura; Markou, Maria – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
When participants are asked to recall a short list of words in any order that they like, they tend to initiate recall with the first list item and proceed in forward order, even when this is not a task requirement. The current research examined whether this tendency might be influenced by varying the number of items that are to be recalled. In 3…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychology, Majors (Students), Foreign Countries
Examining the Relationship between Immediate Serial Recall and Immediate Free Recall: Common Effects of Phonological Loop Variables but Only Limited Evidence for the Phonological Loop
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Spurgeon, Jessica; Ward, Geoff; Matthews, William J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
We examined the contribution of the phonological loop to immediate free recall (IFR) and immediate serial recall (ISR) of lists of between one and 15 words. Following Baddeley (1986, 2000, 2007, 2012), we assumed that visual words could be recoded into the phonological store when presented silently but that recoding would be prevented by…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Word Lists, Visual Stimuli, Cognitive Processes
Imposing Structure on a Corsi-Type Task: Evidence for Hierarchical Organisation Based on Spatial Proximity in Serial-Spatial Memory
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De Lillo, Carlo – Brain and Cognition, 2004
Structure was imposed on a tapping task by requiring participants to reproduce sequences of responses to icons organised in spatial clusters. A first experiment featured sequences either segregated or not segregated by clusters. Accuracy was higher for sequences segregated by clusters. Moreover, inter-response times were longer at cluster…
Descriptors: Proximity, Memory, Spatial Ability, Serial Ordering
Young and Older Adult Eyewitnesses' Use of Narrative Features in Testimony
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Allison, Meredith; Brimacombe, C. A. Elizabeth; Hunter, Michael A.; Kadlec, Helena – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
This study examined the relationship between witness age, narrative features in testimony, and the perceived credibility of witnesses. Ninety older and young adult witnesses to a staged theft were videotaped as they freely recalled crime events. Later, participant-jurors viewed the videos and assessed the witnesses' credibility. Operational…
Descriptors: Adults, Young Adults, Definitions, Interrater Reliability
Processing Goals and Social Judgment.
McCann, C. Douglas – 1983
Cognitive psychologists believe that knowledge is multifaceted and that people process more than just semantic content from a stimulus array. To investigate the implications of recall and impression formation processing objectives on the representation of serial order in memory and judgment, subjects participated in two recall and impression…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Evaluative Thinking, Memory