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The relationship between absolute and proportion scores of serial order memory: simulation predictions and empirical
1School of Psychology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AL, England. c.p.beaman@reading.ac.uk
Abstract:
The capability of a feature model of immediate memory (Naine, 1990; Neath, 2000) to predict and account for a relationship between absolute and proportion scoring of immediate serial recall when memory load is varied (the list-length effect, LLE) is examined. The model correctly predicts the novel finding of an LLE in immediate serial order memory similar to that observed with free recall and previously assumed to be attributable to the long-term memory component of that procedure (Glanzer, 1972). The usefulness of formal models as predictive tools and the continuity between short-term serial order and longer-term item memory are considered.
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