On Interfering with Item versus Order Information in Serial Recall
Gordon H. Bower, Héléne Minaire, Héléne Minaire · The American Journal of Psychology · 1974
After learning a 15-word list, the subjects either rested (R), learned two new lists of words (B), or learned two rescrambled orders of the original words (Ar). Tests of retention (serial recall, reconstruction) over the original list showed that group B suffered loss mainly in item availability but not in order information, whereas group Ar was the reverse, with a large loss in order information but not item availability. A memory model incorporating contextual and sequential associations is proposed.