Serial position demo

A list of items appears one at a time. When it ends, you recall as many as you can, in any order. Afterwards you'll see which positions in the list you remembered best.

Material

Words Nonsense syllables

List length

10 12 15 20

Time per item

0.25 s 0.5 s 1 s 2 s

How you'll recall

Type the items Write on paper

Typed recall is scored automatically. With paper, you mark what you got on the list afterwards.

Your runs are kept in this browser tab so the curve can average them, and are erased when you close it. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Serial position demo

Your recall

Recall by position in the list

The list