In order to facilitate a direct comparison of recent models of pitch and loudness memory, identical recognition‐memory experiments were performed with pitch and loudness as the memory variables. A trial consisted of a roving standard, an interpolated interval of variable duration filled with a variable number of tones, a comparison tone equal to, higher, or lower than the standard, and a same‐different decision on the part of the subject. For both pitch and loudness, criterion and performance measures were related to the position of the comparison tone relative to the standard and to the position of the standard relative to the set of standards. The loudness‐memory model proposed by Durlach and Braida leads to a more adequate explanation of these results than the pitch‐memory models proposed by Massaro or Wickelgren.