Redintegration and the Useful Lifetime of the Verbal Memory Representation

Factors affecting immediate serial recall of individual items can be classified according to whether they influence the degradation of the representation, or influence the ability to redintegrate a degraded representation. For recall of entire lists, factors can be classified according to whether or not they influence the rate at which items are recalled. We review experiments in order to classify the factors of serial position, word length, word frequency, and lexicality. We propose that the two classification systems coincide, at least for those factors whose classification is known for both schemes. We end by considering whether probability of recall of an entire list might be predicted from probability of recall of individual items. Les facteurs qui affectent le rappel seriel immediat d'items peuvent etre classifies selon qu'ils influencent la degradation des representations ou selon qu'ils influencent la reconstruction d'une representation degradee. Pour le rappel de listes entieres, ces facteurs peu...

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