title: Two Modality Effects in Verbal Short-Term Memory: Evidence from Sentence Recall.
abstract: This paper investigates the mechanisms underlying the standard modality effect (i.e., better recall performance for auditorily presented than for visually presented materials), and the modality congruency effect (i.e., better memory performance if the mode of recall and presentation are congruent rather than incongruent, Rummer, Schweppe, & Martin, 2009). We tested the assumption that the standard modality effect is restricted to the most recent word(s) of the sentences but occurs in both verbatim and gist recall (Experiments 1 and 2), whereas the modality congruency effect should be evident for the rest of the sentence when using verbatim recall (Experiment 3) but not when using gist recall (Experiment 4). All experiments used the Potter-Lombardi intrusion paradigm (Potter & Lombardi, 1990). When the target word was the most recent word of the sentence, a standard modality effect was found with both verbatim recall and gist recall. When the target word was included in the middle of the sentences, a modality congruency effect was found with verbatim recall but not with gist recall.
authors.affiliation: University of Erfurt.
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rummer
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schweppe
authors.forename: Randi C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Martin
keywords: Modality effect; gist recall; modality congruency; sentence recall
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