In the late 60's, serial position curves (Murdock, 1962) were used as evidence to support the MSM. Primacy efects were considered evidence of rehearsal and so long-term whereas recency efects were considered evidence of the short-term store. The serial position curve was shown to occur regardless of list length and recency was removed if there was a delay between rehearsal The initial approach was the information We will see why this is and . Evidence for the MSM processing approach which suggests that not the case sensory processes pass through several stores: throughout the Namely, the store, the short- lectures. However, recency efects were demonstrated over term and then the long-term memory store. long time intervals by Baddeley et al. (1977). Recency is not reflect STM but a more general accessibility to more recent experiences. Memory Stores If short-term memory is post-categorical (as suggested by Neath and Merikle) then it requires information (category membership of letters) from long-term memory = There must be communication. Short-Term Memory Multi-Store Model (Atkinson & Shifrin, 1968)

VS. Short term is a simple store, whereas working memory is a 'mental workspace. STM is a part of working memory. Working memory allows manipulation to allow reasoning, learning and comprehension.

It has a limited capacity, temporary store and has a speech like or phonological code (subvocal). Sensory Memory Baddeley (1966) Phonological Similarity: asked The Sufx Efect where a sufx (e.g spoken word Studies where participants can participants to perform serial recall of 4 types of Visual (Sperling, 1960) Purely at the end of the remembered list) drastically choose to recall from any part of the list. Conrad & Hull (1968) gave participants a phone words lists: phonologically similar, semantically visual information lasts in the sensory memory reduces recall of final items. Postman et al. (1965) found that if recall is not number and asked them to read them aloud or similar and two opposite controls. Phonological store for approximately 250ms. It is pre- instant, the recency efect disappears and the silently. Those reading aloud showed strong similarity had an inhibitory efect whereas categorical (unanalysed, preserved in visual primacy efect is maintained, suggesting that recency efect compared to those reading semantic similarity facilitated recall. This form). He briefly flashed letters and digits to the there is a long-term memory due to internal silently, suggesting echoic persistence = pre- suggests that we have a phonological code that participants for 50ms each and asked them to rehearsal of the first words in the list. categorical auditory info. confuses spoken information through report the items they remembered either using a interference. partial (given tone (high, medium or low) which indicated which row) or whole report Coltheart 1980 argued that there are three types The Capacity: Magic Number 7 (Plus or Minus (no cues). Recall was low (4-5) items in whole of sensory memory: Neural, Visual and 2) Miller (1956) measured number of items report but was significantly better in partial Informational Persistence. Using the temporal recalled in correct order. However, items are report (about 12 items), suggesting that sensory integration technique participants were shown difcult to define because letter can be grouped store holds about 4-5 items two sets of images of squares and told to identify in to words (e.g. countdown). People can use which dot is missing. Within 80ms, participants However, Merikle 1980 found that categories chunking to facilitate recall of specific tasks. can detect the empty square. After 80ms, (e.g. only recall digits for high tone, only recall participants could not. This is evidence of pre- Why is there a capacity?: Peterson & Peterson letters low tone) elicited a report advantage in Keppel & Underwood (1962) varied triplets categorial visual persistence. Sperling used (1959) presented participants with consonant the partial report, suggesting that iconic according to diferent categories (e.g. birds to letters which is not separate from informational triplets (XRQ) and asked participants to perform memory is not purely visual but items are colours) and this facilitates recall. Therefore, persistence. a distractor task. Test recall worked at a categorised. may not just be based on decay but function of the length of the distraction. forgetting may be based on interference. Suggesting, decay is fast and so information Auditory (Conard & Hull, 1968) requires grouping is an internal 'echo' of the original sound. Broadbent (1958) inferred this from dichotic listening studies. Again, partial reports showed Iconic memory decays very quickly, and this advantage where participants are asked to recall letters spoken in one of left, both or right ears. explains why the whole report elicited such low recall scores (because it was testing Neath et al. (1993) found that sufx efect sensory memory). The partial report utilised depends on context. Those told they would hear the iconic memory (pre-categorical vision) the same sufx from a human showed reduced Sperling viewed iconic memory as a short- efect of recency whereas those told they would term sensory bufer allowing time for hear the sufx from a sheep were unafected. sensory information to be recoded in a more This suggests that sufx efect is not always categorical manner. pre-categorical. Expectations and context have a strong efect on sufx.