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| Ian NeathSummaryAffiliation: Memorial University of Newfoundland Country: Canada Publications
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Irrelevant speech effects and statistical learningIan Neath
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, NL, Canada
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 62:1551-9. 2009..Two experiments found that irrelevant speech led to lower levels of performance in a visual statistical learning task, offering more support for the O-OER model and posing a challenge for the other two accounts...
Evidence for similar principles in episodic and semantic memory: the presidential serial position functionIan Neath
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, Newfoundland, Canada
Mem Cognit 38:659-66. 2010....
Response time accuracy in Apple Macintosh computersIan Neath
Psychology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, NL, A1B 3X9, Canada
Behav Res Methods 43:353-62. 2011..We conclude that RTs collected on stock iMacs can detect a difference as small as 5-10 ms under realistic conditions, and this dictates which types of research should or should not use these systems...
Further evidence that similar principles govern recall from episodic and semantic memory: the Canadian prime ministerial serial position functionIan Neath
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Can J Exp Psychol 65:77-83. 2011..PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)...
When does length cause the word length effect?Annie Jalbert
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, Newfoundland and Labrador A1B 3X9, Canada
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 37:338-53. 2011..These results add to the growing literature showing problems for theories of memory that include decay offset by rehearsal as a central feature...
Backward recall and the word length effectAimee M Surprenant
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, Newfoundland, Canada
Am J Psychol 124:75-86. 2011..The finding can be accounted for but is not predicted by Scale-Independent Memory, Perception, and Learning (SIMPLE), a model in which item and order information are differentially attended to in the 2 recall directions...
Does length or neighborhood size cause the word length effect?Annie Jalbert
Psychology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, NF, A1B 3X9, Canada
Mem Cognit 39:1198-210. 2011..The results also confirm the importance of lexical and linguistic factors on memory tasks thought to tap short-term memory...
Directly assessing the relationship between irrelevant speech and irrelevant tappingAimee M Surprenant
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland, Canada
Can J Exp Psychol 62:141-9. 2008..Implications for the 3 major explanations of the irrelevant speech effect are discussed...
Evidence for proactive interference in the focus of attention of working memoryLauren M Carroll
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Can J Exp Psychol 64:208-14. 2010..The results replicate those first reported by Hanley and Scheirer (1975), and pose a problem for theorists who argue that parts of short-term memory are immune to PI...
