The role of working memory capacity in the primacy effect and the recency effect

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  • Sasaki Takashi
    Department of Education, Graduate school of Human Relations, Keio University

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  • 初頭効果と新近性効果に対する作動記憶容量の役割
  • When delay was inserted
  • 遅延時間を入れた場合

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of individual differences in working memory capacity on the primacy and recency effect in free, forward, and backward recalls when delay between the learning phase and the recall phase was inserted. Working memory capacity was measured by the word span test and the listening span test. The delay was created by the Kanji (Chinese character) test. In the experiment, the predictive power of the listening span test to the recency effect was not significant. Instead, the correlation coefficient between the listening span test and the primacy effect was negative in the forward recall condition. This result suggested that participants with a low executive function could gain a stronger primacy effect.

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  • CRID
    1390282680653539712
  • NII Article ID
    130005036322
  • DOI
    10.14875/cogpsy.2008.0.59.0
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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