Verbal satiation and free recall

Recall termination in free recall.

Although much is known about the dynamics of memory search in the free recall task, relatively little is known about the factors related to recall termination. Reanalyzing individual trial data from 14 prior studies (1,079 participants in 28,015 trials) and defining termination as occurring when a final response is followed by a long nonresponse interval, we observed that termination probabilit...

Visual free recall.

Lists of complex pictures, not easily encoded verbally, were presented to subjects who recalled them by writing brief descriptions. The lists were 10, 20, and 40 pictures in length. Recall failed to show the primacy and recency effects seen with verbal materials, but was lower for pictures in longer lists. This argues for serial-position effects based in short-term memory and independent list-l...

Verbal context and the recall of meaningful material.

Communicative behavior, perhaps more than any of man's other activities, depends upon patterning for its significance and usefulness. An accidental inversion of words or letters or sounds can produce grotesque alterations of a sentence, and to scramble the elements at random is to turn a sensible message into gibberish. No attack upon the problems of verbal behavior will be satisfactory if it d...

Symptom recall and the diagnostic accuracy of verbal autopsies

Verbal Memory Span and the Timing of Spoken Recall

Prior research indicates that one’s memory span approximately equals what one can say in 2 s. However, this refers to pronunciation in separate, subspan tasks. The present research examined speech timing in the memory response in 4-year-olds. It was found that speaking rates depended on list length relative to a subject’s span, but that speaking rates for span-length lists were the same for sub...