| Abstract: | D. J. Mewhort et al (see record 1969-12246-001) have argued that familiar sequences of letters are reported more accurately than random sequences, in a tachistoscopic task, because the arrays are processed more rapidly by a serial, left-to-right encoding operation. This scanning hypothesis predicts an interaction between familiarity and position, if scanning is interrupted, and a 3-way interaction with familiarity, position, and time, if processing time is manipulated. As predicted by the hypothesis, these interactions were present with free-recall of closely spaced sequences (Exp I, 14 Ss) but were absent for the results with widely spaced sequences (Exp II, 12 Ss). (French summary) (25 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
