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8710447

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-9-6
pubmed:abstractText
This study quantified human short-term-memory decay functions for delayed vibrotactile frequency discriminations. Subjects indicated which of two successive intervals contained the higher or lower frequency of a pair separated by delay periods of 0.5-30 sec. Performance decreased as a function of length of delay and was higher when delays were unfilled than when they were filled with a backwards-counting task. This interpolated task may have interfered with rehearsal of a coded representation of the remembered vibrotactile frequency. A change in decay rate after 5-sec delays suggests a switch from reliance on sensory memory to the coded frequency representation. Performance and decay rate depended on presentation order of higher or lower frequency within pairs. Reciprocal performance asymmetries seen in high-versus low-frequency ranges did not result from simple response bias.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
C
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0031-5117
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
58
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
680-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Discrimination of vibrotactile frequencies in a delayed pair comparison task.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. bob@touch.wustl.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.