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Retroactive interference in short-term recognition memory for pitch.

Author(s) -

Dominic W. Massaro

Publication year - 1970

Publication title -

journal of experimental psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1946-1941

pISSN - 0022-1015

DOI - 10.1037/h0028566

Subject(s) - psychology , term (time) , short term memory , interference theory , cognitive psychology , interference (communication) , audiology , speech recognition , cognition , neuroscience , computer science , working memory , telecommunications , medicine , channel (broadcasting) , physics , quantum mechanics

Investigated the effects of different retroactive stimuli on pitch discrimination in a short-term recognition memory task. 4 female undergraduates served as Ss in Exp. I, and 50 in Exp. II. Tones, Gaussian noise, and "blank" stimuli were employed in the retroactive (interference) interval. The effects of different stimuli in the interference (I) interval are highly dependent on the strategies of S. Tones or noise in the I interval produce more forgetting than blank I intervals. Decrease in accuracy of perceptual memory over time with filled I intervals was attributed to interference rather than decay. A storage-forgetting model of perceptual memory described the quantitative results accurately. (16 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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