The n-back task requires participants to decide whether each stimulus in a sequence matches the one that appeared n items ago. Although n-back has become a standard "executive" working memory (WM) measure in cognitive neuroscience, it has been subjected to few behavioral tests of construct validity. A combined experimental-correlational study…

Building on 2 previous studies (B. R. Ekstrand, 1967; B. R. Ekstrand, M. J. Sullivan, D. F. Parker, & J. N. West, 1971), the authors present 2 experiments that were aimed at characterizing the role of retroactive interference in sleep-associated declarative memory consolidation. Using an A-B, A-C paradigm with lists of word pairs in Experiment 1,…

The question asked in the present study is whether individuals record their experiences with sentences in a manner that provides information about the number of times the same basic meaning or idea has been expressed. (Author)

Two experiments tested whether short-term memory accounts for the recency effect observed with rapid sequential presentation of nonverbal stimuli. (Editor)

The experiments presented in this study tried to validate and clarify the notion of distinctiveness and the assumptions on which it is based, particularly as it relates to prediction of the serial-position effect. (Author/RK)

The present experiment was done to investigate the abilities of an effective isolation dimension (size) in a Short Term Memory release-of-proactive inhibition design. (Author/RK)

The purposes of the present experiments were to attempt to reproduce the Estes and Taylor (1964) results (the number of items identified from a many-item array was as much as twice the full-report span of four or five items) and to compare them with the number of items reported in the full-report procedure. (Author/RK)

Previous work on recalling prose material can be criticized for its limited use of quantitative analysis and for neglecting the theoretical implications of the distinctions between verbatim and other forms of recall. Nine specially written passages used clauses and actual words to split reproduced material into verbatim, non-verbatim and intrusive…

Investigates the differences between rehearsal span and memory span and evaluates the research of Dalrymple-Alford (1967) on the part of rehearsal on reinforcing memory traces. (Author/RK)

The ability of multilinguals to remember the language of linguistically mixed material was studied in two experiments. (Editor)

These experiments demonstrated that it is possible to produce induced amnesia using a loud sound as the critical item when all other items are presented at normal conversational levels. (Author/RK)

Authors attempted to measure the effect of phonetic similarity on the ease and speed with which pairs of words are found in memory. (Author/RK)

The present paper asked whether certain sources of short-term forgetting, proactive interference and interpolated task difficulty, exerted their influences in STS, LTS, or both. (Author/RK)

The central focus of the present study was to determine whether subjects retain any information about the specific nature - the specific lexical content - of the individual sentences heard during acquisition. (Author)

An important issue in encoding theories of memory is the stability of encodings from one stimulus presentation to the next. Article investigate the use of homonyms as an approach to observing the changes in word associations. (Author/RK)