Abstract
Partial report location errors with four-character strings. Following the Averbach and Coriell (1961) iconic memory procedure, location errors are more frequent than intrusion errors. Also, location errors depend on cue delay and serial position. Normally, stimulus strings of 7-8 character in length have been used. Here we report a replication of the basic phenomena with 4-character strings. We found the spatial asymmetry of near location errors reported by Hagenaar and van der Heijden (1997). Our results, with sub-span strings, are inconsistent with both of the two main theoretical views developed to account for the dominance and functional properties of location errors in a bar-probe task.
