Phonological information in immediate and delayed sentence recall.

Full Abstract

Potter and Lombardi (1990) state in their conceptual regeneration hypothesis that immediate sentence recall is only based on conceptual and lexical information; phonological information does not contribute. As experimental evidence for this hypothesis, they reported that if a sentence is followed by a word list that included a lure word similar to one of the content words of the sentence (target word), the lure word frequently intrudes into sentence recall. We demonstrated that Potter and Lombardi did not observe any influence of phonological information because list presentation followed sentence presentation, and phonological information was discarded. We observed that phonological information influenced the intrusion rate if recall was not delayed by the subsequent presentation of a word list. With immediate recall, the lure intrusion effect disappeared in auditorily presented sentences. This shows that, if available, phonological information contributes to sentence recall.

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Author information

Author/s: Rummer, Ralf (R); Engelkamp, Johannes (J);

Affiliation: Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. r.rummer(-atsign-)rz.uni-sb.de

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology (Q J Exp Psychol A), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Jan; vol 56 (issue 1) : pp 83-95

Dates: Created 2003/02/17; Completed 2003/06/24; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12587896, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Adult
Analysis of Variance
Association Learning - physiology
Auditory Perception - physiology
Humans
Memory, Short-Term - physiology

Mental Processes - physiology
Mental Recall - physiology
Phonetics
Reading
Students - psychology
Time Factors

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