title: Memory processing of serial lists by pigeons, monkeys, and people.
abstract: List memory of pigeons, monkeys, and humans was tested with lists of four visual items (travel slides for animals and kaleidoscope patterns for humans). Retention interval increases for list-item memory revealed a consistent modification of the serial-position function shape: a monotonically increasing function at the shortest interval, a U-shaped function at intermediate intervals, and a monotonically decreasing function at the longest interval. The time course of these changes was fastest for pigeons, intermediate for monkeys, and slowest for humans.
authors.affiliation: Sensory Sciences Center, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston 77030, USA.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Santiago
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Sands
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Kendrick
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Cook
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D010856:Columbidae; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008297:Male; D011897:Random Allocation; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D012691:Serial Learning