Tradeoffs between item and order information in short-term memory

2022 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 104300
Author(s):  
Dominic Guitard ◽  
Jean Saint-Aubin ◽  
Nelson Cowan
1965 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 877-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas L. Rohrman ◽  
John C. Jahnke

A total of 300 university students were presented a brief list of non-alphanumeric items and instructed to recall immediately either the items (free recall, FR), the order in which the items were presented (order recall, OR), or both (serial recall, SR). Presentation rate and retention interval were additional experimental variables in Exp. I and II, respectively. In both experiments significant differences in recall were found between FR conditions and the remaining two, which did not differ from each other. More items were recalled at the slow than fas: rate. Retention interval was not a significant variable. Results suggest that retention will improve when order information is eliminated from recall (Brown, 1958), that the recall of item and order information involve at least partially independent memory processes, and that, while the recall of items may proceed independently of the recall of their order, the converse is not true.


1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudette Fortin ◽  
Nathalie Massé

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristjan Kalm ◽  
Dennis Norris

AbstractMost complex tasks require people to bind individual stimuli into a sequence in short term memory (STM). For this purpose information about the order of the individual stimuli in the sequence needs to be in active and accessible form in STM over a period of few seconds. Here we investigated how the temporal order information is shared between the presentation and response phases of an STM task. We trained a classification algorithm on the fMRI activity patterns from the presentation phase of the STM task to predict the order of the items during the subsequent recognition phase. While voxels in a number of brain regions represented positional information during either presentation and recognition phases, only voxels in the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) represented position consistently across task phases. A shared positional code in the ATL might reflect verbal recoding of visual sequences to facilitate the maintenance of order information over several seconds.


Aphasiology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 355-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Attout ◽  
Marie-Anne Van der Kaa ◽  
Mercédès George ◽  
Steve Majerus

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