This study examined the utility of Wechsler's Deterioration Index, which compares short- and long-term memory capabilities. Three studies with a total of 120 children (ages 6-14) found that the index did not predict learning disability status but did distinguish children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder from nondisabled children.…

This study formulated and tested a mathematical model to predict learning in which the amount of correct information recalled from an audio learning task is a function of the rate of oral communication. (Contains 36 references.) (MDH)

A framework is proposed in which on-line activities occurring during comprehension are explicitly tied to the memory representation of a story. The framework, referred to as the "landscape" framework, is used to implement a process model that assumes that readers attempt to explain story events in terms of their causal antecedents. An…

This study examined the effects of misleading information on children's memory for a real-life event. In play sessions involving an experimenter, 36 6-year-olds and 36 9-year-olds individually participated by playing games with a research assistant. In the sessions, six critical items were present: two items identified the room; two identified the…

Non-verbal recall of haptically presented spatial positions by three age groups of blind and sighted children was tested under conditions varying cuing, recall type and stimulus position in a within-subject design. (Editor)

The 90 individually run subjects learned and were tested for their free recall of a conceptually unrelated hierarchy of words, a randomly arranged, or a properly arranged conceptual hierarchy, under instructions to process the words either by generating hierarchical associations among them or by copying them. (Editor)

The encoding specificity effect was examined in three recognition memory experiments employing an associative processing (cuing) task. (Editor)

Two experiments were conducted in which to-be-learned information was systematically structured into either a hierarchy of nested categories or a single level of categorical organization. (Editor)

Two experiments attempted to determine the importance of the integrating theme in memory for a prose passage. (Editor)

The ability to decide rapidly that two visual stimuli are nominally the same when they are also visually the same (the Posner effect) was examined for stimuli of increasing visual complexity (Experiment 1) and when a greater variety of visual differences between the two stimuli was employed (Experiment 2). (Editor)

Examined how college-age adults and 8-, 11-, and 13-year-olds retrieve semantic information from long-term memory. Closely comparable results were obtained across ages. This developmental similarity is discussed in relation to developmental differences in the use of semantic information in other cognitive tasks. (JMB)

The recall (of names) and the recognition (of orientation) of complex pictures both became more accurate with increasing exposure duration when interitem interval was held constant, but were largely unrelated within each exposure duration. (Editor)

The primary purpose of this study is to report the functional relation between recognition memory and degree of semantic contextual change and secondarily, to point out that the obtained relation can be described in terms of alternative theoretical approaches. (Author)

The present experiment explores the roles of probe-digit position and the confirmation of responses on the retrievability of individual items in Short Term Memory. (Editor/RK)