LeCompte D C
Rice University, Houston, Texas.
Mem Cognit. 1992 Sep;20(5):563-72. doi: 10.3758/bf03199588.
When a sequence of visual stimuli is presented in a fixed location, immediate serial recall of the sequence is characterized by only a small recency effect. According to Battacchi, Pelamatti, and Umiltà (1990), the distribution of visual stimuli over space, as well as time, greatly enhances the recency effect. After an initial failure to find a strong visual recency effect with distributed presentation (Experiment 1), in the remaining experiments an attempt was made to more closely approximate Battacchi et al.'s methodology by eliminating articulatory suppression (Experiments 2-7), using their stimuli (Experiments 3-7), blocking conditions (Experiments 4-7), requiring written rather than typed responses (Experiments 5-7), and using their list length (Experiments 6 and 7). Nevertheless, even when their method was followed as closely as possible (Experiment 7), distributed presentation did not produce a strong visual recency effect. The influence of distributed presentation on the visual recency effect would seem to be, at best, limited.
当一系列视觉刺激在固定位置呈现时，对该序列的即时系列回忆仅表现出较小的近因效应。根据巴塔奇、佩拉马蒂和乌米塔（1990年）的研究，视觉刺激在空间以及时间上的分布极大地增强了近因效应。在最初未能通过分布式呈现发现强烈的视觉近因效应之后（实验1），在其余实验中，尝试通过消除言语抑制（实验2 - 7）、使用他们的刺激材料（实验3 - 7）、设置分组条件（实验4 - 7）、要求书面而非打字回答（实验5 - 7）以及采用他们的列表长度（实验6和7）来更接近巴塔奇等人的方法。然而，即使尽可能严格遵循他们的方法（实验7），分布式呈现也并未产生强烈的视觉近因效应。分布式呈现对视觉近因效应的影响似乎至多是有限的。
