The world has changed rapidly and violently since the author went to his first library. But, he still believes in the mystery and magic of language, the power of the printed word, and in the library as a vital literary center and sanctuary as well as a headquarters of social and community activity. (Author/SJ)

Children can recognize patterns much earlier than they can reconstruct them. A child cannot understand seriation in an operational sense unless he recognizes a seriated configuration. (ST)

Reviews the features of two classes of learning theories. Reports evidence supporting a statistical configuration" theory, suggesting that temporal patterns of neurophysiological waves in the average activity of extensive anatomical brain regions may constitute the basis of subjective experience. (AL)

Procedure is described enabling teachers to learn and remember the names of as many as 250 students by the end of the first class session. (CB)

Summarizes research evidence based on models of cognitive structure and memory and suggests some instructional implications of the generalizations offered. (AL)

Discusses the close interrelationships between the various cognitive functions of the brain and the possibility of improving memory through the use of mnemonic devices. Bibliography. (LC)

The present study found that 6-year-old children made fewer errors on a recognition test of visual memory than did 5-year-olds. Sex and IQ differences did not appear to be related significantly to the child's visual memory ability. (Author)

This monograph analyzes theoretical and methodological problems that may have prevented previous research from detecting retroactive inhibition with meaningful discourse and reports on two experiments based on the analysis. (Author/TA)

Adults and children used similar report strategies in a tachistoscopic memory task, but the capacity of the children's short term memory was strikingly limited. Portions of this paper were read at the Eastern Psychological Meetings, Washington, D.C., April, 1968. (MH)

Marihuana affected recognition processes of human subjects, and, with respect to initial learning, also affected acquisition processes involved in the storage of information. (AL)