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Direct linkSikstrom, Sverker – Cognitive Science, 2006
An item that stands out (is isolated) from its context is better remembered than an item consistent with the context. This isolation effect cannot be accounted for by increased attention, because it occurs when the isolated item is presented as the first item, or by impoverished memory of nonisolated items, because the isolated item is better…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Primacy Effect, Short Term Memory, Depression (Psychology)
Peer reviewedRichardson, John T. E. – Cognitive Psychology, 1979
A system of precategorized acoustic storage has accounted for the recency effect obtained in the immediate serial recall of sequences of digits, consonants, or syllables. Four experiments in recall of word sequences investigated fit to this model. A system of postcategorical lexical storage was concluded to explain the results. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
