Primacy and recency effects as indices of the focus of attention.

In JOP there was a highly significant primacy effect [i.e., primacy trials were significantly faster than middle trials, t (19) = 7.96, p < 0.001], no significant recency effect [i.e., no difference in speed between recency trials and middle trials, t (19) = 0.63, p = 0.53] and trials including both the primacy and recency items (1–5) were equivalent to primacy item trials [ t (19) = 1.05, p = 0.31].

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