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Word-Context Associations in Episodic Memory Are Learned at the Conceptual Level: Word Frequency, Bilingual Proficiency, and Bilingual Status Effects on Source Memory
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Francis, Wendy S.; Strobach, E. Natalia; Penalver, Renee M.; Martínez, Michelle; Gurrola, Bianca V.; Soltero, Amaris – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Three source-memory experiments were conducted with Spanish-English bilinguals and monolingual English speakers matched on age, education, nonverbal cognitive ability and socioeconomic status. Bilingual language proficiency and dominance were assessed using standardized objective measures. In Experiment 1, source was manipulated visuo-spatially,…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Short Term Memory, Context Effect, Concept Formation
Common Elements Enhance or Retard Negative Patterning Discrimination Learning Depending on Modality of Stimuli
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Redhead, Edward S.; Curtis, Cheryl – Learning and Motivation, 2013
Human contingency learning studies were used to compare the predictions of configural and elemental theories. In two experiments, participants were required to learn which stimuli were associated with an increase in core temperature of a fictitious nuclear plant. Experiments investigated the rate at which a simple negative patterning…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Stimuli, Prediction, Learning Modalities
An Evaluation of Modality Preference Using a "Morse Code" Recall Task
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Hansen, Louise; Cottrell, David – Journal of Experimental Education, 2013
Advocates of modality preference posit that individuals have a dominant sense and that when new material is presented in this preferred modality, learning is enhanced. Despite the widespread belief in this position, there is little supporting evidence. In the present study, the authors implemented a Morse code-like recall task to examine whether…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Modalities, Recall (Psychology), Experiments
Assessment of Discrimination Skills of Multiply Handicapped Preschoolers and Prediction of Classroom Task Performance.
Wacker, David P.; And Others – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped, 1983
Performance by 11 multiply handicapped children (3-7 years old) on discrimination tasks was used to predict performance on four common classroom tasks in auditory, sign, and visual modes. Ninety-two percent of the predictions made were accurate, indicating that the discrimination assessment was successful in determining each child's preferred…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Learning Modalities, Multiple Disabilities, Preschool Education
Discrimination in Autism within Different Sensory Modalities
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O'Riordan, Michelle; Passetti, Filippo – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
Recent studies have suggested that unusual visual processing in autism might stem from enhanced visual discrimination. Although there are also many anecdotal reports of auditory and tactile processing disturbances in autism these have received comparatively little attention. It is possible that the enhanced discrimination ability in vision in…
Descriptors: Autism, Auditory Discrimination, Tactual Perception, Hypothesis Testing
Commonalities and Differences in Semantic Decision about Pictures and Words.
Guenther, R. Kim; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Reports three experiments to investigate differences in the semantic classification of pictures and words. The data suggest that visual short-term memory and semantic memory operate in semantic-decision tasks though these sources of information differ in characteristics, potential for activation, and level of abstraction. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning