Mental Recall

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Memory for animal tracks: a possible cognitive artifact of human evolution.

Although many human behaviors are held to have adaptive significance, specific examples of behaviors that represent direct holdovers from the ancient world have been few, particularly in the cognitive realm. In the present research, the authors tested ...
Matthew J Sharps, Amy Boothby Villegas, Michael A Nunes, Terry L Barber (J Psychol, 200209)
memory-animal-tracks-possible-cognitive-artifact-human-evolution.asp

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A picture is worth a thousand lies: using false photographs to create false childhood memories.

Because image-enhancing technology is readily available, people are frequently exposed to doctored images. However, in prior research on how adults can be led to report false childhood memories, subjects have typically been exposed to personalized and ...
Kimberley A Wade, Maryanne Garry, J Don Read, D Stephen Lindsay (Psychon Bull Rev, 200209)
picture-worth-thousand-lies-false-photographs-create-false-childhood.asp

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Addressees needs influence speakers early syntactic choices.

A current debate in psycholinguistics concerns how speakers take addressees knowledge or needs into account during the packaging of utterances. In retelling stories, speakers are more likely to mention atypical instruments than easily inferrable, typical ...
Calion B Lockridge, Susan E Brennan (Psychon Bull Rev, 200209)
addressees-needs-influence-speakers-early-syntactic-choices.asp

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The unbearable lightness of priming.

Repetition priming from text to isolated words has been difficult to observe. One explanation for this difficulty is that previous attempts to observe this type of priming have utilised conditions that normally reduce priming. Two experiments were ...
Craig P Speelman, Terry A Simpson, Kim Kirsner (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200209)
unbearable-lightness-priming.asp

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Accuracy of self-reported pesticide use duration information from licensed pesticide applicators in the Agricultural Health Study.

Epidemiologists frequently rely on self-reported information regarding a variety of exposures including smoking history, medication use, and occupational exposure because other sources of information are either unavailable or difficult to obtain. One way ...
Jane A Hoppin, Fikri Yucel, Mustafa Dosemeci, Dale P Sandler (J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol, 200209)
accuracy-self-reported-pesticide-duration-information-licensed.asp

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Direct comparison of neural systems mediating conscious and unconscious skill learning.

Procedural learning, such as perceptual-motor sequence learning, has been suggested to be an obligatory consequence of practiced performance and to reflect adaptive plasticity in the neural systems mediating performance. Prior neuroimaging studies, ...
Daniel B Willingham, Joanna Salidis, John D E Gabrieli (J Neurophysiol, 200209)
direct-comparison-neural-systems-mediating-conscious-unconscious.asp

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Two routes to remembering (and another to remembering not).

In this article, the author presents evidence about 2 mechanisms of remembering that occur when target stimuli are presented in meaningful contexts. One occurs when the context has been seen previously; the other occurs when the context is new in the ...
Bruce W A Whittlesea (J Exp Psychol Gen, 200209)
two-routes-remembering-remembering-not.asp

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Is study time allocated selectively to a region of proximal learning?

Five experiments investigated whether people allocate their study time according to the discrepancy reduction model (i.e., to the most difficult items; J. Dunlosky & C. Hertzog, 1998) or to items in their own region of proximal learning. Consistent with ...
Janet Metcalfe (J Exp Psychol Gen, 200209)
study-time-allocated-selectively-region-proximal-learning.asp

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Validity of childrens food portion estimates: a comparison of 2 measurement aids.

BACKGROUND: Policy and clinical decisions regarding childrens nutrition are often based on dietary intake estimates from self-reports. The accuracy of these estimates depends on memory of both the type of food eaten and the amount consumed. Although ...
Donna M Matheson, Kara A Hanson, Tiffany E McDonald, Thomas N Robinson (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 200209)
validity-children-s-food-portion-estimates-comparison-measurement.asp

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Determiner selection in noun phrase production.

In 3 experiments, native speakers of German named pictures of 1 or 2 objects by producing singular or plural noun phrases consisting of a definite gender-marked determiner and a noun. When singular and plural determiners differed (masculine and neuter ...
Herbert Schriefers, Ansgar Hantsch, Jörg D Jescheniak (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200209)
determiner-selection-noun-phrase-production.asp