Parmentier Fabrice B R, Maybery Murray T, Jones Dylan M
Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2004 Jun;11(3):501-7. doi: 10.3758/bf03196602.
Grouping effects in serial recall have been widely studied with verbal stimuli, but hardly ever with spatial stimuli and not at all with auditory spatial stimuli. In Experiment 1, we examined the influence of combined temporal and pitch grouping on recall of the locations from which bursts of white noise were presented. Similar to findings in verbal studies, effects of the grouping manipulation were found in performance accuracy, in the nature of order errors, and in the timing of responses. Experiment 2 was designed to distinguish the role played by pitch grouping from that played by temporal grouping, through independent manipulation of the presence of a shift in pitch and that of a temporal gap. The results showed that the temporal grouping manipulation determined performance and the pitch grouping manipulation did not. Similarities between our findings and those of verbal studies, and implications for the understanding of serial memory are discussed.
在系列回忆中，分组效应已经在言语刺激方面得到了广泛研究，但在空间刺激方面几乎没有研究过，在听觉空间刺激方面则完全没有研究过。在实验1中，我们研究了时间分组和音高分组相结合对白色噪声突发呈现位置回忆的影响。与言语研究中的发现类似，分组操作的效应体现在表现准确性、顺序错误的性质以及反应时间上。实验2旨在通过独立操纵音高变化的存在和时间间隔的存在，区分音高分组和时间分组所起的作用。结果表明，时间分组操作决定了表现，而音高分组操作则没有。我们讨论了研究结果与言语研究结果的相似之处，以及对系列记忆理解的启示。
