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Masson, Michael E. J. – 1978
A battery of memory tests was administered to 243 male university students. Factor analysis with oblique rotation of factors revealed five factors: (1) associative memory (particularly important in paired-associate tests), (2) short-term visual memory (the ability to derive information from briefly presented visual displays), (3) meaningful memory…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cluster Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Factor Analysis
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Direct linkFiser, Jozsef; Aslin, Richard N. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
The authors investigated how human adults encode and remember parts of multielement scenes composed of recursively embedded visual shape combinations. The authors found that shape combinations that are parts of larger configurations are less well remembered than shape combinations of the same kind that are not embedded. Combined with basic…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Visual Learning, Adults, Visual Stimuli
