Memory comparison time for complex digit stimuli: The effect of number length |
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Authors: | James M Swanson Marcel Kinsbourne Paul Noel Portia File |
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Institution: | Fairview State Hospital and The University of California, Irvine, USA;Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, USA;University of Texas, USA |
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Abstract: | Woodworth (1938) reported that naming latency increased linearly with the number of digits per number (number length). In the present study, the Sternberg memory scanning paradigm was utilized to investigate this effect. It was found that the slope of the memory scanning function increased linearly with number length: memory scanning time was 40 msec for one-digit numbers, 70 msec for two-digit numbers and 101 msec for 3 digit numbers. The intercepts of the memory scanning functions did not differ for the three types of numbers. Thus the increase in latency may be due to the memory comparison stage of processing. The data suggest that a memory comparison operation occurs for each digit position of the complex memory items composed of more than one digit. |
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