creators_name: Muter, Paul type: journalp datestamp: 2005-06-19 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:05 metadata_visibility: show title: Response latencies in discriminations of recency ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: recency discrimination, memory for temporal information abstract: Subjects were asked to report which of two test words had been presented more recently in a list of 4 or 10 words. In each of four experiments, the study position of the probe that had been presented earlier in the list had little or no effect on response latency, whereas the study position of the probe that had been presented later in the list had a large and reliable effect on response latency. In Experiment 4, some test items were lures, and they had no effect on response latency. These results are incompatible with several theories of recency discrimination and strongly suggest parallel self-terminating processing of the probes. date: 1979 date_type: published publication: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory volume: 5 publisher: American Psychological Association, Inc pagerange: 160-169 refereed: TRUE referencetext: Berlyne, D. E. Effects of spatial order and interitem interval on recall of temporal order. Psychonomic Science, 1966, 6, 375-376. Bower, G. H. Stimulus-sampling theory of encoding variability. In A. W. Melton & E. Martin (Eds.), Coding Processes in human memory. Washington, D.C.: V. H. Winston, 1972. Guyau, J. M. La genese de l'idee de temps (2nd ed.). In P. Fraisse, The psychology of time (J. Leith, trans.). New York: Harper & Row, 1963. (Originally published, 1902.) Hinrichs, J. A. A two-process memory-strength theory for judgment of recency. Psychological Review, 1970, 77, 223-233. Kirk, R. E. Experimental design: Procedures for the behavioral sciences. Belmont, Calif.: Brooks/ Cole, 1968. Konorski, J. The physiological approach to the problem of recent memory. In J. F. Delafresnaye (Ed.), Brain mechanisms and learning. London: Oxford University Press, 1961. Lipps, T. Grundtatsachen des seelenlebens. In P. Fraisse, The psychology of time (J. Leith, trans.). New York: Harper & Row, 1963. (Originally published, 1883.) Morton, J. Repeated items and decay in memory. Psychonomic Science, 1968, 10, 219-220. Murdock, B. B., Jr. Short-term memory. In G. H. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory (Vol. 5). New York: Academic Press, 1972. Murdock, B. B., Jr. Human memory: Theory and data. Potomac, Md.: Erlbaum, 1974. Murdock, B. B., Jr., & Anderson, R. E. Encoding, storage and retrieval of item information. In R. L. Solso (Ed.), Theories in cognitive psychology: the Loyola symposium. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1975. Peterson, L. R. Search and judgment in memory. In B. Kleinmuntz (Ed.), Concepts and the structure of memory. New York: Wiley, 1967. Postman, L. Does interference theory predict too much forgetting? Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1963, 2, 40-4. Sternberg, S. Memory-scanning: Mental processes revealed by reaction-time experiments. American Scientist, 1969, 57, 421-457. Wickelgren, W. A. Single-trace fragility theory of memory dynamics. Memory & Cognition, 1974, 2, 775-780. Yntema, D. B., & Trask, F. P. Recall as a search process. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1963, 2, 65-74. citation: Muter, Paul (1979) Response latencies in discriminations of recency. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/4402/1/Abs1979.htm