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Pauses and durations exhibit a serial position effect.

Karl Haberlandt1, Holly Lawrence, Talia Krohn

  • 1Department of Psychology, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106, USA. karl.haberlandt@trincoll.edu

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
|June 11, 2005
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Immediate serial recall shows distinct serial position effects in response timing. Both pauses between words and word speaking times were faster for early and late items in a list.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Memory

Background:

  • Serial position effects are well-documented in immediate serial recall.
  • Previous research has primarily focused on accuracy rather than response timing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate serial position effects on response timing (pauses and durations) in immediate serial recall.
  • To examine how these timing effects align with existing models of memory.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed spoken immediate serial recall of ungrouped word lists.
  • Recall direction (forward/backward) was cued after list presentation.
  • Interresponse pauses and response durations were measured.

Main Results:

  • A bow-shaped function was observed for both interresponse pauses and response durations, with faster responses at list ends.

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  • Faster responding occurred at initial and final serial positions compared to middle positions.
  • The observed pause pattern aligns with distinctiveness and ACT-R models.

    • Conclusions:

    • Response timing, specifically pauses and durations, exhibits serial position effects in immediate recall.
    • The duration pattern suggests that response articulation is context-dependent, not modular.
    • Findings contribute to understanding the dynamics of memory retrieval and response production.