Rehearsal of visual and auditory stimuli while shadowing.
Memory trigrams were presented by one of three methods: visual-concurrent (all three letters appeared simultaneously), visual-successive, and auditory-successive. During the 12-sec retention interval, subjects shadowed and reported their rehearsals and mnemonic associations via switches. On trials without associations, recall performance was interpreted as support for the hypothesis that the form of rehearsal is related to presentation modality. However, the frequency and temporal patterning of the rehearsals over the retention interval were virtually identical for all three presentation conditions, suggesting that the "control processes" were relatively independent of both method of presentation and modality of rehearsal. Most importantly, these data in combination with earlier data suggest that the efficiency of each rehearsal was also independent of those same factors, in each case quite comparable to that of a concurrent visual stimulus.
D001244:Association; D001307:Auditory Perception; D006801:Humans; D007257:Information Theory; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D012691:Serial Learning; D013997:Time Factors; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception