Abstract
Previous research has indicated that, when a serial learning task involves switching sense modality, learning is depressed. The switching involves a period of about 200 msec., which is not a part of the time available for learning. In a serial learning task, with nonsense syllables, sense modality was switched from the auditory to the visual to the auditory or the reverse, but only one switch was involved in the 7-syllable list. The prediction was that a depression would be produced in the learning of the syllable following the switch and that the syllable involved in the switch would be influenced both by the von Restorff effect and by the reduction in time available for learning as a result of switching. At the faster of two speeds some evidence was consistent with predictions.
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