The extent to which subjects showing relatively high amounts of categorical clustering recalled more words than subjects showing relatively low amounts of clustering was investigated in three free-recall experiments with categorized lists. (Editor)

These experiments demonstrated that it is possible to produce induced amnesia using a loud sound as the critical item when all other items are presented at normal conversational levels. (Author/RK)

This study was designed to investigate the effect of individual differences in habitually preferred number of categories (PNC) on the form and interpretation of the category-recall function. (Editor)

Three experiments are described in which the qualitative nature of memorial processing was manipulated at both input (encoding) and output (retrieval). As in earlier research, it was found that retention levels were highest when the same type of information was used as a retrieval cue. Concludes that the notions of encoding specificity and depth…

Retrieval and response criterion explanations of the effects of text organization on memory were tested in four experiments. More target information was freely recalled when it was high than when low in content structure. Retrieval cues reduced recall differences between information high and low in the structure. (Author/RD)

Two experiments examined the effect on recall of a response prefix, a redundant element emitted after the presentation of a memory series but before recall was completed. (Editor)

The present study sought to demonstrate that under appropriate presentation conditions, presumably nonrecodable items like strings of random consonants rapidly presented a single time may be subjectively chunked to facilitate recall, the entire chunks becoming more readily accessible for retrieval than any other assemblage of the letters. (Author)

This article focused on the level of analysis at which two selection processes: filtering and pigeon holing, operate. (Author/RK)

The present study was designed to examine further the relation between amount of rehearsal and recall probability. (Author)

Two studies examined the influence of a single irrelevant vocalization on verbal recall of 10-item lists. (Editor)

Unidirectional associates were used in a test of the encoding specificity principle with single items. Strong preexperimental associates were effective retrieval cues even when encoding conditions were not conducive to the establishment of a target-cue association. Results suggested that the presence of weak cues on the test reduced the…

The present experiment contrasted the effects of one and three redundant elements on recall, when the elements prefixed either the stimulus or the response. (Editor)

Recent studies by Jones (1974) have posited that accurate movements in short-term motor memory (STMM) are mediated by the subject's ability to preset effector mechanisms and monitor their efferent output. Three experiments were conducted to examine this hypothesis. (Editor)

Attempts to determine whether a sufficiently demanding and difficult interpolated task (shadowing, i.e., repeating aloud) would decrease recall for earlier-presented items as well as for more recent items. Listening to music was included as a second interpolated task. Results support views that serial position effects reflect a single process.…

The results of this study disconfirm the predictions of the decay hypothesis because long-term recency effects appear to result from the use of contextually based retrieval cues. Long-term recency effects were attenuated on immediate recognition tests, while long-term recency effects were found on free recall tests. (DWH)