Stress grouping improves performance on an immediate serial list recall task.

Stress grouping improves performance on an immediate serial list recall task. Reeves, C., Schmauder, A. R., & Morris, R. K. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 26(6):1638-54, 2000.
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Five experiments investigated whether perceptual patterning afforded by imposing a recurrent stress pattern on auditorially presented lists has a positive effect on list recall. The experiments also addressed whether the recall advantage reflected the salience that the stress pattern created for certain items or whether the recall advantage arose from the distinct grouping configurations that were produced by the stress pattern. The authors explored these issues by examining immediate serial-recall performance for spoken lists that either did or did not have a stress pattern imposed on them. Lists had an anapest or dactylic stress pattern or were monotone and consisted of two stimulus types, either digit names or common English nouns. Results showed that stress patterns enhanced serial-recall performance and that the recall benefit derived primarily from the perceptual grouping afforded by the stress patterns. Results also showed that the grouping benefit derived from stress patterning generalizes to monotone lists. In contrast, salience effects are attached to the stimulus per se and do not transfer.

@Article{Reeves2000,
  author   = {C. Reeves and A. R. Schmauder and R. K. Morris},
  journal  = {J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn},
  title    = {Stress grouping improves performance on an immediate serial list recall task.},
  year     = {2000},
  number   = {6},
  pages    = {1638-54},
  volume   = {26},
  abstract = {Five experiments investigated whether perceptual patterning afforded
	by imposing a recurrent stress pattern on auditorially presented
	lists has a positive effect on list recall. The experiments also
	addressed whether the recall advantage reflected the salience that
	the stress pattern created for certain items or whether the recall
	advantage arose from the distinct grouping configurations that were
	produced by the stress pattern. The authors explored these issues
	by examining immediate serial-recall performance for spoken lists
	that either did or did not have a stress pattern imposed on them.
	Lists had an anapest or dactylic stress pattern or were monotone
	and consisted of two stimulus types, either digit names or common
	English nouns. Results showed that stress patterns enhanced serial-recall
	performance and that the recall benefit derived primarily from the
	perceptual grouping afforded by the stress patterns. Results also
	showed that the grouping benefit derived from stress patterning generalizes
	to monotone lists. In contrast, salience effects are attached to
	the stimulus per se and do not transfer.},
  keywords = {Adult, Auditory Perception, Female, Humans, Male, Mental Processes, Mental Recall, Psychological, Stress, Time Factors, 11185787},
}

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