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'''Serial memory processing''' is the act of attending to and processing one item at a time. This is usually contrasted against parallel memory processing, which is the act of attending to and processing all items simultaneously.

In short-term memory tasks, participants are given a set of items (i.e.g. letters, digits) one at a time and then, after varying periods of delay, are asked for recall of the items. As well, participants could be asked whether a specific target item was present in their original set. Serial memory processors would compare one item at a time, from their original set, and would not move to the next comparison until the previous is complete.<ref name=Townsend>Townsend, J. & Fific, M. (2004). Parallel versus serial processing and individual differences in high-speed search in human memory. ''Perception & Psychophysics, 66''(6).</ref>

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====Primacy and Recency Effects====

- [[Primacy effect]] and [[Recency effect]] for accuracy of recall are found for both visual stimuli <ref name=Parmentier /> and auditory stimuli <ref name=Avons />

- Theorized due to the belief that errors are due to serial position. There are more nearby serial positions to the middle item in a set, as opposed to the first and last items in a set. The first and last items are remembered more accurately because their are less error-prone positions <ref name=Naire />

- Suffix effect, removes the recency effect by adding a meaningless item at the end of a memory set. For visual stimuli, adding a meaningless item, whether or not it is visually similar to the memory set, will remove the recency effect. For auditory stimuli, only adding a meaningless item that is phonologically similar works to remove the recency effect. Those that are phonologically different (e.g. A, Q) will not have this effect <ref name=Parmienterr />

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