Guay M, Hall C R
Percept Mot Skills. 1984 Feb;58(1):215-20. doi: 10.2466/pms.1984.58.1.215.
This study compared the short-term retention characteristics of temporal information when subjects experienced time under either subject-defined or experimenter-defined rehearsal. Subjects were presented visual durations of 1 and 4 sec. and then required to reproduce these durations following a 15-sec. retention interval. To help maintain the durations in memory, subjects were asked to use either a conscious cognitive strategy or a mental counting strategy. It was predicted that experimenter-defined rehearsal would show less forgetting, as measured by variable error, but this prediction was not supported. There also was no evidence of any response bias or context effects in the temporal reproductions. These results were compared with two previous studies that utilized similar cognitive strategies.
本研究比较了在受试者自行定义或由实验者定义的复述情况下，时间信息的短期保持特征。向受试者呈现1秒和4秒的视觉时长，然后要求他们在15秒的保持间隔后再现这些时长。为了帮助在记忆中保持这些时长，要求受试者使用有意识的认知策略或心理计数策略。据预测，以可变误差衡量，由实验者定义的复述遗忘较少，但这一预测未得到支持。在时间再现中也没有任何反应偏差或情境效应的证据。将这些结果与之前两项采用类似认知策略的研究进行了比较。
