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Auditorially presented lists of from one to six digits were memorized by Ss with instructions to scan the memory set to determine the presen’ce or absence of a single auditorially presented probe digit. Results showed cooccurrence of parallel linear increases in decision time with list length for positive and negative responses and effects of serial position of probes in the memory lists. A comparison with two previous studies using visual presentation of materials suggests faster encoding of auditorially presented probes but similarity in processing time in memory once probes have been encoded.
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This study was supported in part by PHS Grant NS 09767-01 from the National Institutes of Health.
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Wingfield, A. Effects of serial position and set size in auditory recognition memory. Memory & Cognition 1, 53–55 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198067
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