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DIGRAM‐FREQUENCY AND IMMEDIATE MEMORY
Author(s) -
HOWE M. J. A.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1967.tb01056.x
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , task (project management) , consonant , free recall , cognitive psychology , speech recognition , communication , computer science , management , vowel , economics
Digram structure is a determinant of immediate memory for consonant lists. Its effects might operate either before or after recall is required, or both. If digram frequency affects the way sequences are stored, a distracting task may have unequal effects on lists containing digrams of high and low frequency. Two experiments were carried out, which produced evidence suggesting that digram frequency influences the way in which sequences are stored prior to recall being required. When letter sequences were presented between presentation and recall of consonant lists consisting of medium‐frequency digrams, recall of the latter was positively related to the digram frequency of the interfering sequences.