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Overwriting of phonemic features in serial recall

Lange, E B; Oberauer, Klaus (2005). Overwriting of phonemic features in serial recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 13(3-4):333-339.

Abstract

We tested two explanations of the phonological similarity effect in verbal short-term memory: The confusion hypothesis assumes that serial positions of similar items are confused. The overwriting hypothesis states that similar items share feature representations, which are overwritten. Participants memorised a phonologically dissimilar list of CVC-trigrams (Experiment 1) or words (Experiment 2 and 3) for serial recall. In the retention interval they read aloud other items. The material of the distractor task jointly overlapped one item of the memory list. The recall of this item was impaired, and the effect was not based on intrusions from the distractor task alone. The results provide evidence for feature overwriting as one potential mechanism contributing to the phonological similarity effect.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Psychology
Dewey Decimal Classification:150 Psychology
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences & Humanities > General Psychology
Language:English
Date:2005
Deposited On:08 Jul 2014 13:46
Last Modified:11 Jun 2025 01:36
Publisher:American Psychological Association
ISSN:0278-7393
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210344000378
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