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Alternative hypotheses have been put forward to account for order-effect in dichotic listening performance. One of these involves a distinction between perceptual and short-term storage mechanisms, the other requires only different storage mechanisms. If the distinction between perception and storage may be regarded as related to the difference between activity traces and structural traces, then the repeated digit series technique devised by Hebb (1961) offers a means of testing these alternatives. Results suggest that a single, rather than a dual mechanism underlies order-effect in the sequential recall of simultaneous stimuli.
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1. This study was made possible by Grant No. HD 02250-01 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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Inglis, J., Tansey, C.L. Perception and short-term storage in dichotic listening performance. Psychon Sci 7, 273–274 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328556
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