Hebb repetition effects in visual memory: The roles of verbal rehearsal and distinctiveness

A version of the Hebb repetition task was used with faces to explore the generality of the effect in a nonverbal domain. In the baseline condition, a series of upright faces was presented, and participants were asked to reconstruct the original order. Performance in this condition was compared to an...

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Published in:Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) 2008-12, Vol.61 (12), p.1769-1777
Main Authors: Horton, Neil, Hay, Dennis C., Smyth, Mary M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Biological and medical sciences
Discrimination Learning - physiology
Face
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Hebb repetition
Human
Humans
Inhibition (Psychology)
Item distinctiveness
Learning. Memory
Male
Memory
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Photic Stimulation - methods
Practice (Psychology)
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time - physiology
Recognition (Psychology) - physiology
Sequence learning
Serial recall
Verbal Learning - physiology
Young Adult
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Summary:A version of the Hebb repetition task was used with faces to explore the generality of the effect in a nonverbal domain. In the baseline condition, a series of upright faces was presented, and participants were asked to reconstruct the original order. Performance in this condition was compared to another in which the same stimuli were accompanied by concurrent verbal rehearsal to examine whether Hebb learning is dependent on verbal processing. Baseline performance was also compared to a condition in which the same faces were presented inverted. This comparison was used to determine the importance in Hebb learning of being able to visually distinguish between the list items. The results produced classic serial position curves that were equivalent over conditions with Hebb repetition effects being in evidence only for upright faces and verbal suppression as having no effect. These findings are interpreted as posing a challenge to current models derived from verbal-domain data.
ISSN:1747-0218
1747-0226
DOI:10.1080/17470210802168674