title: Tactile Ranschburg effects: facilitation and inhibitory repetition effects analogous to verbal memory.
abstract: The present paper examines the effect of within-sequence item repetitions in tactile order memory. Employing an immediate serial recall procedure, participants reconstructed a six-item sequence tapped upon their fingers by moving those fingers in the order of original stimulation. In Experiment 1a, within-sequence repetition of an item separated by two-intervening items resulted in a significant reduction in recall accuracy for that repeated item (i.e., the Ranschburg effect). In Experiment 1b, within-sequence repetition of an adjacent item resulted in significant recall facilitation for that repeated item. These effects mirror those reported for verbal stimuli (e.g., Henson, 1998a . Item repetition in short-term memory: Ranschburg repeated. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24(5), 1162-1181. doi:doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.24.5.1162). These data are the first to demonstrate the Ranschburg effect with non-verbal stimuli and suggest further cross-modal similarities in order memory.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science & Technology , Bournemouth University , Poole , UK.
authors.forename: Daisy
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Roe
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science & Technology , Bournemouth University , Poole , UK.
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Miles
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science & Technology , Bournemouth University , Poole , UK.
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012691:Serial Learning / Q000502:physiology; D055698:Touch Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Ranschburg effect; Tactile memory; order memory; response suppression; serial position effects