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Serial position effects for tones were studied in a recognition memory experiment The S was given a stimulus list consisting of several tone bursts followed by a number of test tones. Accuracy of recognition of stimulus items as a function of input position followed the classical bowed serial position curve. Memory strength was a monotonically decreasing function of position in the test list. The data were fitted with a strength theory model of memory. The fit yielded decay parameters corresponding to stimulus- and response-induced interference, which were comparable to the parameters reported for meaningful verbal material.
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This research was supported by United States Public Health Service Grant MH 20301. A report of this work was presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, November 1970.
We thank D. Robbins, W. J. Dowling, and M. J. Penner for critically, reading an earlier draft of this manuscript.
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Leshowltz, B., Hanzi, R. Serial position effects for tonal stimuli. Memory & Cognition 2, 112–116 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197500
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