British Journal of Psychology · 1964 · 716 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesPsychologyCognitive PsychologyMemoryVisual PerceptionAuditory DiscriminationAuditory MemoryMemory RetrievalRecognition MemoryWord RecognitionAuditory Memory SpanAuditory RecallAuditory Sequence MemoryAuditory Short-term MemorySerial Order RecallShort-term Verbal RecallWord List Recall
Immediately after visual presentation, subjects were required to recall 6‐letter sequences. Sequences were drawn from four vocabularies. There were two 3‐letter vocabularies, distinguished by the probability of acoustic confusion within them, and two 9‐letter vocabularies similarly distinguished. Memory span is shown to be effectively independent of information per item, and to depend substantially on the probability of acoustic confusion within vocabularies.