Kindergarten, first-, and third-grade children were presented depicted items and asked to name them. For each item they could not name they were asked to judge (1) if they felt they knew the name and so would be able to recognize it and (2) if they had seen the depicted item before. (Author/JMB)

The effect of three different kinds of advance descriptions on recognition memory for component information from pictures was measured for 72 first-grade children. All descriptions resulted in higher retention of all components than viewing without description. (Author/JMB)

In a series of studies on delayed recognition and forgetting, the failure of 22-week-old infants to recognize which face photo (e.g, man or woman) had been previously exposed was shown to be influenced by what the infant saw during a retention interval. (Author/JMB)

Twenty-four children at each of 3 grade levels (preschool, 2, and 5) were asked to judge which of a presented set of stimulus items they could recall in a subsequent period of verbal free recall. (Author/JMB)

The structure-of-intellect model is updated to contain five content properties: (1) visual; (2) auditory; (3) symbolic; (4) semantic; and (5) behavioral. The memory element within the operations facet is differentiated into memory recording and memory retention. Research is cited to support these changes, the operations, and the products of the…

Comments on a study by Schacter and others which proposes that insights into why infants make the AB error can be gained by examining the errors of brain-damaged adults on similar tasks. (The B in AB has a line over it in the title and in the article meaning "A not B.") (PCB)

The study examined cognitive impairment in 21 learning disabled (LD) adults. Results indicated that LD adults consistently overestimated their ability to remember lists of words and that they were especially impaired on a test requiring termination of an exhaustive and thorough search for relevant material. (Author/DB)

Infants exposed to a set of artificially-created face stimuli having distinct mean and modal prototypes showed a pattern of behavior predicted by category abstraction models. Infants appeared to abstract, at the time of learning, a feature-count summary of the category displayed. (Author/RH)

Compared the effects of depression and brain damage on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Digit Span subscale and the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised Logical Memory subtest. Performance on both tests was substantially affected by brain damage, but not by depression. Implications regarding neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation are…

In a study involving eight mildly mentally retarded and ten CA-matched nonretarded Ss, retarded Ss demonstrated slower overall choice mean reaction times than nonretarded Ss. Results also suggested that the processing difference lies in the memory scanning as opposed to the encoding decision/response of the linear model. (Author/CL)

Two experiments investigated the ability of 3-month-olds to acquire generalized expectancies of reward and the role of these expectancies in memory retrieval. In both experiments, infants exhibited positive transfer over invariant and variable stimulus series; however, in the second experiment, violations of either expected order produced a…

Two experiments examined the effects of a change in a reinforcing stimulus's color on memory for an operant response in three- to four-month-old infants. (Author/RH)

The paper describes recent research investigating the relationship between speed with which individuals can execute basic cognitive processes and performance on tests of intelligence and mental ability. Results are discussed in terms of three properties of the working-memory system which limit the amount of information for simultaneous storing and…

This booklet allows parents to participate in the special education process to encounter an unfamiliar language often referred to as ?acronyms.? It may seem like a foreign language, but it is really just a language of initials, which this booklet explains and defines. Often during school meetings, many of these acronyms are used frequently, and it…