Reexamining the phonological similarity effect in immediate serial recall : The roles of type of similarity, category cuing, and item recall

Prahlad Gupta; John Lipinski; Emrah Aktunc

doi:10.3758/BF03193208

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Reexamining the phonological similarity effect in immediate serial recall : The roles of type of similarity, category cuing, and item recall

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Reexamining the phonological similarity effect in immediate serial recall : The roles of type of similarity, category cuing, and item recall

Prahlad Gupta, John Lipinski and Emrah Aktunc

Memory & cognition, Vol.33(6), pp.1001-1016

2005

DOI: 10.3758/BF03193208

PMID: 16496721

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Study of the phonological similarity effect (PSE) in immediate serial recall (ISR) has produced a conflicting body of results. Five experiments tested various theoretical ideas that together may help integrate these results. Experiments 1 and 2 tested alternative accounts that explain the effect of phonological similarity on item recall in terms of feature overlap, linguistic structure, or serial order. In each experiment, the participants' ISR was assessed for rhyming, alliterative, and similar nonrhyming/nonalliterative lists. The results were consistent with the predictions of the serial order account, with item recall being higher for rhyming than for alliterative lists and higher for alliterative than for similar nonrhyming/nonalliterative lists. Experiments 3 and 4 showed that these item recall differences are reduced when list items repeat across lists. Experiment 5 employed rhyming and dissimilar one-syllable and two-syllable lists to demonstrate that recall for similar (rhyming) lists can be better than that for dissimilar lists even in a typical ISR task in which words are used, providing a direct reversal of the classic PSE. These and other previously published results are interpreted and integrated within a proposed theoretical framework that offers an account of the PSE. Copyright 2005 Psychonomic Society, Inc.

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Title: Subtitle: Reexamining the phonological similarity effect in immediate serial recall : The roles of type of similarity, category cuing, and item recall
Creators: Prahlad Gupta - University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
John Lipinski - University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Emrah Aktunc - University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Memory & cognition, Vol.33(6), pp.1001-1016
Publisher: Psychonomic Society
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193208
PMID: 16496721
ISSN: 0090-502X
eISSN: 1532-5946
Language: English
Date published: 2005
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Record Identifier: 9984213413902771

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