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PubMed1990

Encoding of colors in short-term memory.

A theory is proposed to explain results from prior experiments on release from proactive inhibition and the recall of colors or color names in short-term memory. It is assumed that colors are encoded in two ways, verbally and perceptually, while color names are encoded only verbally. Assuming that the release occurs when a new and different encoding is performed on changed material, it follows that release from proactive inhibition should occur with shifts from color names to colors but not with shifts in the opposite direction. These results were obtained in prior experiments. In the present experiment ambiguous colors were used to minimize the verbal encoding. As predicted, release from proactive inhibition was found with shifts from ambiguous colors to names as well as with shifts from names to the ambiguous colors.

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PubMed1984

Short-term memory for colors and color names in the absence of vocalization.

In a previous experiment, Allen found no release from proactive inhibition using the Brown-Peterson procedure in a group who were shifted from recalling colors to recalling the names of colors. The lack of release suggests that colors and color names are encoded in similar ways. It was argued that the similarity of encoding might have been caused by the procedure of requiring the subjects to say out loud the names of the colors at the time of stimulus presentation and recall. In the present experiment, a procedure was devised that eliminated the need for verbalization of the colors. The same pattern of results was obtained, namely, release from proactive inhibition in the group shifted from recalling color names to colors but not in the group shifted in the opposite direction. It was concluded that if subjects encode colors as a verbal label, then this encoding strategy is not caused by the procedure of requiring the subjects to verbalize the colors.

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PubMed1986

Anna Thompson and the American liner New York: some normative data.

Increased proactive inhibition is claimed to be common in brain-damaged subjects and the Wechsler Memory Scale is often used in the clinical examination of such subjects. Normative data are presented on the two paragraphs of the Logical Memory sub-test of the WMS, Form 1, which allow evaluation of the frequency of occurrence of a discrepancy of a given size between performances on the two paragraphs, based on the performances of 500 subjects without any known neuropsychiatric involvement.

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