Poirier Marie, Saint-Aubin Jean, Mair Ali, Tehan Gerry, Tolan Anne
Department of Psychology, City University London, Northampton Square, London, UK, EC1V 0HB,
Mem Cognit. 2015 Apr;43(3):489-99. doi: 10.3758/s13421-014-0470-6.
In their recent article, Acheson, MacDonald, and Postle (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 37:44-59, 2011) made an important but controversial suggestion: They hypothesized that (a) semantic information has an effect on order information in short-term memory (STM) and (b) order recall in STM is based on the level of activation of items within the relevant lexico-semantic long-term memory (LTM) network. However, verbal STM research has typically led to the conclusion that factors such as semantic category have a large effect on the number of correctly recalled items, but little or no impact on order recall (Poirier & Saint-Aubin, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 48A:384-404, 1995; Saint-Aubin, Ouellette, & Poirier, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 12:171-177, 2005; Tse, Memory 17:874-891, 2009). Moreover, most formal models of short-term order memory currently suggest a separate mechanism for order coding-that is, one that is separate from item representation and not associated with LTM lexico-semantic networks. Both of the experiments reported here tested the predictions that we derived from Acheson et al. The findings show that, as predicted, manipulations aiming to affect the activation of item representations significantly impacted order memory.
在他们最近的一篇文章中，艾奇逊、麦克唐纳和波斯特尔（《实验心理学杂志：学习、记忆与认知》，第37卷，第44 - 59页，2011年）提出了一个重要但有争议的观点：他们假设（a）语义信息对短期记忆（STM）中的顺序信息有影响，并且（b）STM中的顺序回忆基于相关词汇 - 语义长期记忆（LTM）网络中项目的激活水平。然而，言语STM研究通常得出的结论是，诸如语义类别等因素对正确回忆项目的数量有很大影响，但对顺序回忆影响很小或没有影响（波里尔和圣奥宾，《实验心理学季刊》，第48A卷，第384 - 404页，1995年；圣奥宾、乌莱特和波里尔，《心理onomic通报与评论》，第12卷，第171 - 177页，2005年；谢，《记忆》，第17卷，第874 - 891页，2009年）。此外，目前大多数短期顺序记忆的形式模型都提出了一种单独的顺序编码机制——也就是说，一种与项目表征分开且与LTM词汇 - 语义网络无关的机制。这里报告的两个实验都测试了我们从艾奇逊等人的研究中得出的预测。研究结果表明，正如所预测的那样，旨在影响项目表征激活的操作对顺序记忆有显著影响。
