Interference effects in schizophrenic short-term memory.

1976 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Bauman ◽  
Eugene Kolisnyk
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory

Short-term Retention of Tactile Stimulation

1972 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith V. Sullivan ◽  
M. T. Turvey
Keyword(s):  
Tactile Stimulation ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Task Condition ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Arithmetic Task ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Term Retention ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Rest Condition

In three experiments subjects were required to reproduce after varying delays the locus of a tactile stimulation delivered to the upper-side of the arm. During the retention periods subjects either performed a subsidiary, arithmetic task or rested. Recall, as measured by accuracy in reproducing the locus of stimulation, decreased as a function of retention interval, asymptoting after approximately 5 s. Performance was poorer in the subsidiary task condition than in the rest condition; however, the effect of the subsidiary task appeared to be more on subject recall strategies than on rehearsal capacity. No evidence of proactive interference effects was found, and a decay interpretation of forgetting of discrete tactile stimuli in the short-term memory distractor paradigm was favoured.

Susceptibility to Interference Effects in Short-Term Memory of Normal and Retarded Readers

1975 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 791-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Serial Order ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory

The short-term memory for serial order of third and fourth grade normal and retarded readers ( Ns = 13) was studied. Six pictures of common objects were spatially presented and subjects were required to reconstruct the sequence. On the first six trials, the same pictures were repeatedly presented in different sequences. On the seventh trial, a new set of stimuli was introduced. Analysis of short-term memory over trials showed that normal and retarded readers were similar on Trial 1 but the performance of retarded readers deteriorated more over trials than the performance of normal readers. Short-term memory of both groups improved on Trial 7. The results indicate a greater susceptibility to interference in the short-term memory of retarded readers.

Learning and interference effects in short-term memory.

1973 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Hasher ◽  
Judith Goggin ◽  
Donald A. Riley
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory

scholarly journals Decay and Interference Effects in Visuospatial Short-Term Memory

Perception ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham J Hole
Keyword(s):  
Interstimulus Interval ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
The Third ◽  
Spatial Interval ◽  
Method Of Constant Stimuli

The method of constant stimuli was used to examine the accuracy with which two-dimensional spatial information can be represented in mental images. In experiment 1, subjects had to decide which of two successively presented two-dot separations was wider. Over the range of interstimulus intervals employed (0 to 30 s), there was a linear relationship between interstimulus interval and spatial interval thresholds. In experiment 2 subjects' abilities to represent accurately more than one spatial interval at a time was investigated. Three dot pairs were presented, but only two pairs were to be compared, the third being completely irrelevant to the task. This manipulation doubled thresholds (relative to a two-dot-pair control condition), whether or not subjects were obliged to attend to the irrelevant dots. Overall, the results suggest that mental representations of spatial information may be temporally durable, but only in the absence of extraneous stimuli. The latter not only disrupt memory for spatial information, but appear to have obligatory access to it.

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