Mental Recall

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Does the nature of the experience influence suggestibility? A study of childrens event memory.

Two experiments examined the effects of event modality on childrens memory and suggestibility. In Experiment 1, 3- and 5-year-old children directly participated in, observed, or listened to a narrative about an event. In an interview immediately after ...
Camilla Gobbo, Carolina Mega, Margaret-Ellen Pipe (J Exp Child Psychol, 200204)
nature-experience-influence-suggestibility-study-children-s-event.asp

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Memory of elapsed time and feeling of time discrepancy.

In dating past events, one sometimes recalls inaccurate dates and tends to estimate recent events too remotely and remote events too recently (telescoping). On the other hand, even when one knows the exact dates of events, subjective time could be ...
Yumi Shimojima (Percept Mot Skills, 200204)
memory-elapsed-time-feeling-time-discrepancy.asp

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The bizarreness effect and individual differences in imaging ability.

The bizarreness effect refers to the superior performance in recall of bizarre sentences as compared to common sentences. The subjects studied each target word and in Exp. 1 rated its congruity with its sentence frame. In Exp. 2 they rated the vividness ...
Hiroshi Toyota (Percept Mot Skills, 200204)
bizarreness-effect-individual-differences-imaging-ability.asp

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Association of field dependence and color-coding to male students achievement.

This study concerned the relationship of field dependence and differentially color-coded materials (black-and-white and colored) with 56 male students achievement. Significant differences were found in favor of the 21 field-independent men on the Total ...
Francis M Dwyer, David M Moore (Percept Mot Skills, 200204)
association-field-dependence-color-coding-male-students-achievement.asp

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The modulatory effects of corticosteroids on cognition: studies in young human populations.

In the present article, we report on two studies performed in young human populations which tested the cognitive impact of glucocorticoids (GC) in situations of decreased or increased ratio of mineralocorticoid (MR) and glucocorticoid (GR) receptor ...
Sonia J Lupien, Charles W Wilkinson, Sophie Brière, Catherine Ménard, N M K Ng Ying Kin, N P V Nair (Psychoneuroendocrinology, 200204)
modulatory-effects-corticosteroids-cognition-studies-young-human.asp

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Use of a false recognition paradigm in an Alzheimers disease clinical trial: a pilot study.

We report the first use of a false recognition memory test in a clinical trial of patients with Alzheimers disease (AD). Tests of false recognition allow measurement of two components of memory: the specific details of a prior encounter with a particular ...
Andrew E Budson, Kalina J Michalska, Dorene M Rentz, Claire C Joubert, Kirk R Daffner, Daniel L Schacter, Reisa A Sperling (Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen, 200203-04)
false-recognition-paradigm-alzheimer-s-disease-clinical-trial-pilot.asp

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Preschoolers are sensitive to the speakers knowledge when learning proper names.

Unobservable properties that are specific to individuals, such as their proper names, can only be known by people who are familiar with those individuals. Do young children utilize this "familiarity principle" when learning language? Experiment 1 tested ...
Susan A J Birch, Paul Bloom (Child Dev, 200203-04)
preschoolers-sensitive-speaker-s-knowledge-learning-proper-names.asp

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Directional scanning effect and strength of reading habit in picture naming and recall.

The present research examined directional scanning effects (DSE) as a function of reading habit strength among right handers. A picture array naming and recall task was administered to three groups of child readers--unidirectional right-to-left readers ...
Prakash Padakannaya, M L Devi, B Zaveria, S K Chengappa, Jyotsna Vaid (Brain Cogn, 200203-04)
directional-scanning-effect-strength-reading-habit-picture-naming.asp

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Generalizing the dynamic field theory of the A-not-B error beyond infancy: three-year-olds delay- and experience-dependent location memory biases.

Thelen and colleagues recently proposed a dynamic field theory (DFT) to capture the general processes that give rise to infants performance in the Piagetian A-not-B task. According to this theory, the same general processes should operate in noncanonical ...
Anne R Schutte, John P Spencer (Child Dev, 200203-04)
generalizing-dynamic-field-theory-not-b-error-beyond-infancy-three.asp

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Effects of target presentation time, recall delay, and aging on the accuracy of manual pointing to remembered targets.

The issues addressed in 2 experiments in which 10 younger and 10 older adults participated were (a) whether the retention of a target location in memory for motor control purposes would be facilitated by an increase in target presentation time; (b) ...
Martin Lemay, Luc Proteau (J Mot Behav, 200203)
effects-target-presentation-time-recall-delay-aging-accuracy-manual.asp