Presents studies to explore imagery at several levels of meaning, and use of imagery in analyzing implicit aspects of meaning. Studies using sentence verification task with pairs of concrete or abstract sentences concluded that concrete sentences are verified faster for explicit and implicit test items; paraphrases were verified more rapidly than…

Argues that existing evidence does not discredit the notion that hypermnesia (increased recall across repeated testing) is related to level of recall. (EKN)

Discusses three experiments which provide evidence for the conclusions that hypermnesia (increased recall with repeated testing) does not depend on the encoding of material in an imaginal format but is related to the level of recall across conditions within an experiment. (EKN)

Reviews empirical evidence which suggests that level of recall does not determine hypermnesia (increased recall with repeated testing). Discusses the problem of deciding between a levels-of-processing and an imagery hypothesis of hypermnesia. (EKN)

Presents study performed to clarify the role that imagery plays in sentence understanding. Results show that reading selectively interferes with comprehension of high-imagery sentences and demonstrates that sentence comprehension is not a process that is independent of the decoding stage. (Author/BK)