@article {Johnson:2008:0965-8211:84,
title = "Serial position effects in 2-alternative forced choice recognition: Functional equivalence across visual and auditory modalities",
journal = "Memory",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/pmem",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2008",
volume = "17",
number = "1",
publication date ="2008-10-01T00:00:00",
pages = "84-91",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0965-8211",
eissn = "1464-0686",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/pmem/2008/00000017/00000001/art00009",
doi = "doi:10.1080/09658210802557711",
keyword = "Nonwords, Serial position equivalence, Short-term memory",
author = "Johnson, Andrew and Miles, Christopher",
abstract = "Two experiments examined Ward, Avons, and Melling's (2005) proposition that the serial position function is task, rather than modality, dependent. Specifically, they proposed that for backward testing the 2-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) recognition paradigm is characterised by single-item
recency irrespective of the modality of the stimulus presentation. In Experiment 1 the same nonword sequences, presented both visually or auditorily, produced qualitatively equivalent serial position functions with 2AFC testing. Forward testing produced a flat serial position function, while
backward testing produced two-item recency in the absence of primacy. In order to rule out the possibility that the serial position functions for visual stimuli were the product of sub-vocal rehearsal, Experiment 2 employed articulatory suppression during the presentation phase. Serial position
function equivalence was again observed together with a modest impairment in overall recognition rates. Taken together, these data are consistent with the Ward et al. proposition and further support the existence of a visual memory that can facilitate storage of visual-verbal material (e.g.
Logie, Della Sella, Wynn, & Baddeley, 2000). However, the observation of two-item recency contradicts the original duplex account of single-item recency traditionally observed for backwards recognition testing of visual stimuli (Phillips & Christie, 1977).",
}