Zomerman, Timo, T (2022) Serial Binding Mechanisms in Position-Specific Recall of Letters in (Non)Words. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The present study acts as a follow-up on previous studies investigating serial binding as a mechanism of position-specific letter-recall through utilization of n-th letter retrieval tasks. Some of these studies found an unexpected relative performance peak at the third position of Dutch nonwords, while other studies found that centered warning signals did not induce their hypothesized effects on German and English nonwords. The present study investigated the effects of centered and distributed warning cues on position-specific letter-recall accuracy in Dutch (non)words. Furthermore, exclusively nonwords with a low-frequency were utilized so as to explore an alternative explanation of the earlier found performance peak at the centre of Dutch nonwords. The previous finding that the centered warning signal did not induce a relative performance peak was replicated, but letter-recall accuracy took on a U-shape across positions in nonwords cued with distributed and centered warning signals, rather than the expected hook-shape. An explanation of this finding is given in terms of the tail-frequencies of nonwords, which were not controlled. The present study is consistent with a serial binding explanation of position-specific recall, but further research is needed to confirm the role of tail-frequencies in inducing the U-shaped distributions found in nonwords.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Vries, P.H. de |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Cognitive Psychology and Psychophysiology (CPP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2022 09:55 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2022 09:10 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/142 |
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