Order and Item Information in Short-Term Reordering of Letters
- 1 December 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 41 (3) , 971-976
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1975.41.3.971
Abstract
Subsequent to seeing a sequence of eight letters, 66 subjects were presented with the same letters in a jumbled order. Their task was to reconstruct the original order from the jumbled display. The acoustic similarity of the items as well as the rate of presentation was experimentally manipulated. A decrement in performance for sequences of acoustically similar items, as compared to those consisting of acoustically distinct items, increased as presentation rate decreased. The results were explained in terms of the processing of information about order and the acoustic nature of item information in short-term memory.Keywords
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