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Order errors produced in the generation of proaction in the short-term retention of trigrams were analyzed in terms of their phonemic similarity to the correct items. Employing five successive applications of a short-term memory distractor technique with a 12 sec retention interval it was observed that items transposed within a trigram were phonemically related to the correct items but position intrusions from preceding trigrams were not. Both types of error-production remained invariant across the five trials. The data were considered in the framework of models of order storage in short-term memory.
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Turvey, M.T. The structure of order error in the build-up of proactive interference in short-term memory. Psychon Sci 11, 213–214 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327666
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