Immediate and Delayed Recall of Visually Presented Sentences:

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Research ArticlesImmediate and Delayed Recall of Visually Presented Sentences:Evidence for the Involvement of Phonological InformationRalf RummerRalf Rummer Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:September 01, 2006https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.51.1.15PDFView Full Text ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInReddit SectionsMoreAbstractAbstract. The lure intrusion effect refers to the observation that lexical priming affects recall of sentences. This effect is taken as evidence against the contribution of surface information, even with immediate sentence recall. Recently, Rummer and Engelkamp (2003a) demonstrated that this effect, which is usually observed under rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP), does not appear under immediate recall of auditorily presented sentences. This finding indicates that surface information (i.e., phonological or acoustic-sensory information) can contribute to immediate sentence recall. So far, however, the findings do not allow for a decision on whether phonological and/or acoustic-sensory information is used in immediate sentence recall. In order to dissociate the two kinds of surface information, an experiment was conducted in which immediate and delayed recall were tested for sentences that were visually presented for a longer period of time than in RSVP. This kind of presentation should support phonological representations, but does not allow for acoustic-sensory representations. The findings showed a smaller intrusion effect for immediate than for delayed recall. This indicates that, if available, phonological information is involved in immediate sentence recall thereby reducing the lure intrusion effect. 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I want to thank Randi Martin for her hospitality, Doris Dehn, Judith Schweppe, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper, and Jennifer Winnen, Jasmin Prokasky, and Ralph Dirksen for running the experiment and helping to analyze the data.PDF download