Two experiments were conducted in order to investigate the relationship between memory for individual sentences and memory for the holisitic ideas conveyed by those sentences. (Editor)

Three experiments evaluated the effect of poststimulus distractor characteristics in altering recognition of random shapes. (Editor)

Three experiments are reported investigating whether the decreasing recall over trials in the Brown-Peterson paradigm--proactive inhibition (PI)--derives from encoding or storage (availability) differences between items or from retrieval (accessibility) differences. (Editor)

Attempts to develop an index that will provide a broader data base from which to determine the relative strengths of list items in memory. (Author/RK)

Begg & Paivio (1969) have proposed that while sentences dealing with abstract matters are normally coded in verbal terms, those concerned with concrete events are internalized as imagery. In two experiments, subjects observed both types of sentence prior to carrying out a distractor task which involved either verbal or perceptual coding. (Editor)

Autistic children were compared with control children on tasks in which retention was tested by different methods. In three tests of recall, using named pictures, written words and spoken words as test stimuli, autistic children were impaired in comparison with age-matched normal children and with controls matched for verbal and non-verbal…

The concepts of iconic memory and schematic memory are used to examine two fundamental and related features of the contemporary theory of visual information processing. (Editor)

Elderly depressives sometimes perform as badly as patients with dementia on tests of memory. It was hypothesized that this might be because depressives adopt a very conservative response strategy rather than because their memory is really impaired. (Editor)

Five reaction time experiments explored word frequency effects in word-nonword decision tasks and in pronunciation and memory tasks. Analysis of the response latencies using Sternberg's additive-factors approach indicates that frequency effects consist of both effects in encoding and in retrieval from memory. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to determine whether PI (proactive inhibition) release for taxonomic word categories could be observed for chronic schizophrenics. (Author/RK)

Examines the effects of recall strategies on the serial position curve in immediate and delayed recall. (Author/RK)

Three experiments investigated the hypothesis that, when interpreted in context, general terms are typically encoded on the basis of an instantiation. Results indicated that a particular term naming the expected instantiation of a general term was a better cue for recall of a sentence than the general term itself. (CHK)

Two aspects of memory for prose were investigated. The amount of information remembered and the semantic interpretation assigned to ambiguous paragraphs. Task instructions and exposure duration of passages were varied. Recall and recognition measures indicated students remembered more with instructions requiring processing at a semantic level.…

Effects of disambiguating prior contexts upon processing of lexical ambiguities in sentences were investigated. Subjects listened to lexically ambiguous sentences after a neutral or a disambiguating prior contest, and monitored for phonemes occurring immediately after each ambiguous word. Reaction times were significnatly longer following…

Investigates the effect of imagery ability upon performance in free recall and relates this effect to the distinction between primary and secondary memory. (Author/RK)