Phonological recoding under articulatory suppression
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Dennis Norris1,2, Sally Butterfield3, Jane Hall3
1MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. dennis.norris@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk.
Abstract:
We report data from an experiment in which participants performed immediate serial recall of visually presented words with or without articulatory suppression, while also performing homophone or rhyme detection. The separation between homophonous or rhyming pairs in the list was varied. According to the working memory model (Baddeley, 1986; Baddeley & Hitch, 1974), suppression should prevent articulatory recoding. Nevertheless, rhyme and homophone detection was well above chance. However, with suppression, participants showed a greater tendency to false-alarm to orthographically related foils (e.g., GIVE-FIVE). This pattern is similar to that observed in short-term memory patients.
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