Haskins Publications

Number	119
Year	1972
Drawer	2
Entry Date	05/21/1998
Authors	Darwin, C. J., Turvey, M. T., & Crowder, R. G.
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Publication	Cognitive Psychology, 3, 255-267.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0119.pdf
Abstract	Three experiments are reported on the partial report of material presented auditorily over three spatially different channels. When partial report was required by spatial location, it was superior to whole report of the cue came less than four seconds after the end of the stimuli (Experiment 1). When partial report was required by semantic category (letters/digits) the relation between it and whole report depended on whether the subject was asked also to attribute each item to its correct spatial location. When location was required partial report was lower than whole report and showed no significant decay with delay of the partial report indicator (Experiment II), but when location was not required, partial report was superior to whole report for indicator delays of less than two seconds (Experiment III). This superiority was, however, much less than that found in Experiment I when partial report was required by spatial location. These results are compatible with a store which has a useful life of around two seconds and from which material may be retrieved more easily by spatial location than by semantic category.
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