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Patrick, John; Ahmed, Afia; Smy, Victoria; Seeby, Helen; Sambrooks, Katie – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
The aim of this study was to develop a novel cognitive procedure for operationalizing how the re-encoding and constraint relaxation, suggested by representational change theory (RCT) (Ohlsson, 1992, 2011), can effect representational change in verbal insight problem solving, thus circumventing the constraints imposed by past experience. Some…
Descriptors: Verbal Learning, Problem Solving, Cues, Cognitive Processes
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Groninger, Lowell D.; Groninger, Linda Knapp – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1982
An experiment was designed to determine whether or not images are directly involved in the retrieval process. The results provided evidence for the direct involvement of images in both the encoding and retrieval processes for words. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Definitions, Higher Education, Imagery
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Yee, Eiling; Sedivy, Julie C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Two experiments explore the activation of semantic information during spoken word recognition. Experiment 1 shows that as the name of an object unfolds (e.g., lock), eye movements are drawn to pictorial representations of both the named object and semantically related objects (e.g., key). Experiment 2 shows that objects semantically related to an…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Semantics, Language Research