Recognition memory for words, sentences, and pictures

doi:10.1016/S0022-5371(67)80067-7

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior

Volume 6, Issue 1, February 1967, Pages 156-163

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The Ss looked through a series of about 600 stimuli selected at random from an initially larger population. They were then tested for their ability to recognize these “old” stimuli in pairs in which the alternative was always a “new” stimulus selected at random from the stimuli remaining in the original population. Depending upon whether this original population consisted solely of words, sentences, or pictures, median Ss were able correctly to recognize the “old” stimulus in 90, 88, or 98% of the test pairs, respectively. Estimated lower bounds on the informational capacity of human memory considerably exceed previously published estimates.

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¹: Of the three experiments reported here, the first two and a pilot study for the third were completed in 1958, at Harvard University, under Contract AF 33(038)-14343 with the Operational Applications Laboratory of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center. Reproduction of this report for any purposes of the United States Government is therefore permitted. All three experiments were reported at the 1959 meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Atlantic City (and a brief account of the third appeared in Cofer and Musgrave, 1963, p. 29).

²: I am indebted to the late Marie Sperling for her assistance in the first two experiments, to Maureen Sheenan and to John Gibbon for their assistance in the third, to Saul Sternberg for his helpful comments on the manuscript, and to George A. Miller for his encouragement and support throughout.

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Recognition memory for words, sentences, and pictures1

J. verb. Learn. verb. Behav.

J. verb. Learn. verb. Behav.

Articulation testing methods-II. Harvard Univer.: Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory

OSRD Report No. 3802

Recognition memory and the operating characteristic. Indiana Univer.: Hearing and Communication Laboratory

Technical Note AFCRC-TN-58-51

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Psychol. Rev.

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Scientific American

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Psychol. Rev.

The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information

Psychol. Rev.

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An analysis of the recognition process