Beaman C Philip, Jones Dylan M
Centre for Cognition Research, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading Reading, UK.
School of Psychology, Cardiff University Cardiff, UK.
Front Psychol. 2016 Mar 10;7:341. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00341. eCollection 2016.
The nature of forgetting in short-term memory remains a disputed topic, with much debate focussed upon whether decay plays a fundamental role (Berman et al., 2009; Altmann and Schunn, 2012; Barrouillet et al., 2012; Neath and Brown, 2012; Oberauer and Lewandowsky, 2013; Ricker et al., 2014) but much less focus on other plausible mechanisms. One such mechanism of long-standing in auditory memory is overwriting (e.g., Crowder and Morton, 1969) in which some aspects of a representation are "overwritten" and rendered inaccessible by the subsequent presentation of a further item. Here, we review the evidence for different forms of overwriting (at the feature and item levels) and examine the plausibility of this mechanism both as a form of auditory memory and when viewed in the context of a larger hearing, speech and language understanding system.
短期记忆中遗忘的本质仍是一个存在争议的话题，许多争论集中在衰退是否起根本作用（伯曼等人，2009年；阿尔特曼和舒恩，2012年；巴鲁伊莱等人，2012年；内斯和布朗，2012年；奥伯奥尔和莱万多夫斯基，2013年；里克等人，2014年），但对其他可能机制的关注则少得多。听觉记忆中一种长期存在的机制是覆盖（例如，克劳德和莫顿，1969年），即表征的某些方面被“覆盖”，随后呈现的另一个项目使其无法访问。在这里，我们回顾了不同形式覆盖（在特征和项目层面）的证据，并考察了这一机制作为听觉记忆形式以及在更大的听力、言语和语言理解系统背景下的合理性。
