Mental Recall

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Memory for frequency of bizarre and common stimuli: limitations of the automaticity hypothesis.

In 2 experiments, the influence of intention to process frequency on accuracy of memory for frequency of bizarre and common sentences was investigated. The results from multiple regression analyses indicated that intentional processing increased the ...
James B Worthen, Scott A Hutchens, Paul D Nicodemus, Jeffrey D Baker (J Gen Psychol, 200207)
memory-frequency-bizarre-common-stimuli-limitations-automaticity.asp

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Readers reality-driven and plot-driven analyses in narrative comprehension.

We suggest that when readers experience narratives, their expectations about the likelihood of narrative events are informed by two types of analyses. Reality-driven analyses incorporate real-world constraints involving, for example, time and space; ...
David N Rapp, Richard J Gerrig (Mem Cognit, 200207)
readers-reality-driven-plot-driven-analyses-narrative-comprehension.asp

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How does background information improve memory for text content?

In two experiments, we investigated whether reading background information benefits memory for text content by influencing the amount of content encoded or the organization of the encoded content. In Experiment 1, half of the participants read background ...
Katherine A Rawson, Walter Kintsch (Mem Cognit, 200207)
background-information-improve-memory-text-content.asp

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Recognition with and without identification: dissociative effects of meaningful encoding.

In a series of four experiments, the effects of levels of processing and generation on the recognition of identified versus unidentified word fragments were examined. After studying a list of words, participants took a word fragment completion test in ...
Anne M Cleary (Mem Cognit, 200207)
recognition-identification-dissociative-effects-meaningful-encoding.asp

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Factors modulating the effect of divided attention during retrieval of words.

In this study, we examined variables modulating interference effects on episodic memory under divided attention conditions during retrieval for a list of unrelated words. In Experiment 1, we found that distracting tasks that required animacy or syllable ...
Myra A Fernandes, Morris Moscovitch (Mem Cognit, 200207)
factors-modulating-effect-divided-attention-retrieval-words.asp

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The role of attack and defense semantics in skilled players memory for chess positions.

There is much evidence that chess skill is based on chunks in memory that represent parts of positions from previously encountered games. However, the content of these chunks is a matter for debate. According to one view, (1) the closer two pieces are to ...
Stuart J McGregor, Andrew Howes (Mem Cognit, 200207)
role-attack-defense-semantics-skilled-players-memory-chess-positions.asp

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Efficiency of retrieval correlates with "logical" reasoning from causal conditional premises.

In two experiments, we examined the prediction that there should be a relation between the speed with which subjects can retrieve potential causes for given effects and their reasoning with causal conditional premises (if cause P, then effect Q). It was ...
Henry Markovits, Stéphane Quinn (Mem Cognit, 200207)
efficiency-retrieval-correlates-logical-reasoning-causal-conditional.asp

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The time course of spatial memory distortions.

Four experiments investigated the memory distortions for the location of a dot in relation to two horizontally aligned landmarks. In Experiment 1, participants reproduced from memory a dot location with respect to the two landmarks. Their performance ...
Steffen Werner, Jörn Diedrichsen (Mem Cognit, 200207)
time-course-spatial-memory-distortions.asp

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Preserved calculation skills in a case of semantic dementia.

We present the case of a patient, BET, with a profound semantic dementia who shows a selective preservation of many aspects of number knowledge. In the context of an otherwise global loss of visual and verbal semantic knowledge, our patient demonstrates ...
Sebastian J Crutch, Elizabeth K Warrington (Cortex, 200206)
preserved-calculation-skills-case-semantic-dementia.asp

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Privileged access to action for objects relative to words.

We compared action (pour or twist?) and contextual/semantic (found in kitchen?) decisions made to pictures of objects, nonobjects, and words. Although there was no advantage for objects over words in contextual/semantic decisions, there was an advantage ...
Hanna Chainay, Glyn W Humphreys (Psychon Bull Rev, 200206)
privileged-access-action-objects-relative-words.asp