Table 1.
Breakdown of Recall Error Types.
| Sentences | One-Timbre | Scrambled | Three-Timbres | Environmental | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Omissions | 1.41 | 1.03 | 1.64 | 0.10 | 1.13 | 0.95 | 0.71 | 0.53 |
| Substitutions | 0.21 | 0.15 | 0.24 | 0.13 | 0.18 | 0.13 | 0.19 | 0.13 |
| Variants | 0.08 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.06 |
| Additions | 0.33 | 0.24 | 0.37 | 0.22 | 0.24 | 0.20 | 0.16 | 0.20 |
| Reversals | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.15 | 0.20 | 0.07 | 0.10 |
| Word-lists | ||||||||
| Omissions | 0.38 | 0.30 | 0.49 | 0.34 | 0.38 | 0.32 | 0.35 | 0.28 |
| Substitutions | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.04 | 0.05 |
| Variants | 0.14 | 0.11 | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.09 |
| Additions | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.10 |
| Reversals | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.10 | 0.12 |
Note: For all auditory and sentence types, the largest errors in recall were “omission” errors. Values refer to the average number of errors per word-list/sentence across all trials.