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Science. 1970 Jun 26;168(3939):1604-5. doi: 10.1126/science.168.3939.1604.
Recognition of the pitch of a tone was severely disrupted by the incorporation of six other tones during a 5-second retention interval, even though the intervening tones could be ignored. However, the requirement to recall six numbers spoken at equal loudness during the identical retention interval produced only a minimum decrement in the same pitch-recognition task. Further, the requirement to remember the tone produced no decrement in recall of the numbers. It is concluded that immediate memory for pitch is subject to a large interference effect which is highly specific in nature and which is not due to some limitation in general short-term memory capacity or to a distraction of attention.
在5秒的保持间隔期间加入另外六个音调时，对音调音高的识别会受到严重干扰，即使这些中间音调可以被忽略。然而，在相同的保持间隔期间要求回忆以相同响度说出的六个数字，在相同的音高识别任务中只产生了最小程度的下降。此外，记住音调的要求在数字回忆方面没有产生下降。得出的结论是，对音高的即时记忆会受到很大的干扰效应，这种效应在性质上具有高度特异性，并且不是由于一般短期记忆容量的某些限制或注意力的分散。
