SERIAL POSITION EFFECTS AND IMAGE RECOGNITION - A PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF RECENCY AND PRIMACY EFFECTS

The study of serial position effects with slow brain potentials allows us to propose the hypothesis of an independence of primacy and recency effects. These two effects seem to involve, at least, two central processes respectively in correspondence with the N200 and the P300 phenomena. Moreover, the recency effect seems to appear before the primacy effect during the recognition process.