Lexicality and phonological similarity: a challenge for the retrieval-based account of serial recall?
The retrieval-based account of serial recall (Saint-Aubin & Poirier, 2000) attributes lexicality, phonological similarity, and articulatory suppression effects to a process where long-term representations are used to reconstruct degraded phonological traces. Two experiments tested this assumption by manipulating these factors in the recall of four- and five-item lists of words and non-words. Lexicality enhanced item recall (IR), but only affected position accuracy (PA) for five-item lists under suppression. Phonological similarity influenced both words and non-words, and produced impaired PA in silent and suppressed conditions. Consistent with the retrieval-based account, words and non-words of high word-likeness appear subject to redintegration. However, some findings, like suppression not reducing the phonological similarity impairment in suppressed conditions, present challenges for the retrieval-based account and other models of serial recall.
Fallon
Anthony B
AB
Centre for Rural and Remote Area Health, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia 4350. fallon@usq.edu.au
Mak
Eva
E
Tehan
Gerald
G
Daly
Charmaine
C
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011939:Mental Recall; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010700:Phonetics; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012691:Serial Learning