creators_name: Chow, Siu
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datestamp: 2002-04-26
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title: Iconic store and partial report
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: Iconic store, partial report, information persistence
abstract: The iconic store has recently been challenged on the grounds that data in its favor may have resulted from some procedural artifacts. The display-instruction compatibility and perceptual grouping hypotheses were reexamined in two experiments with the partial-report paradigm. When care was taken to rectify some procedural problems found in Merikle's (1980) study, it was established that the iconic store (as a hypothetical mechanism) can still be validly entertained. This report demonstrates one important procedural point in studying the iconic store with the partial-report task, namely, that subjects must be given more than token training on the partial-report task.
date: 1985
date_type: published
publication: Memory & Cognition
volume: 13
number: 3
pagerange: 256-264
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Chow, Siu  (1985) Iconic store and partial report.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/2187/3/icptrept.pdf