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VISUAL AND AUDITORY PRESENTATION, PRESENTATION RATE, AND SHORT‐TERM MEMORY IN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
MURRAY D. J.,
ROBERTS BEVERLEY
Publication year - 1968
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.2044-8295.1968.tb01123.x
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , presentation (obstetrics) , audiology , perception , visual perception , short term memory , term (time) , auditory perception , cognitive psychology , serial position effect , free recall , developmental psychology , cognition , working memory , neuroscience , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , radiology
Lists of six digits were presented either auditorially or visually at rates of 1, 2 or 3 digits/sec to groups of 7‐, 8‐, 9‐ and 10‐year‐old girls. Immediate recall improved with age under all conditions, but the recall of visually presented slow lists improved with age at a steeper rate than did the recall of visually presented fast lists or of auditorially presented lists. The results are related to the findings of previous studies on STM as a function of presentation rate, and in particular to the hypothesis that when slow rates give superior recall as compared with fast, it is because subjects can more fluently read and rehearse the items at the time of perception.