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Glanzer, Murray; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Five studies were carried out to analyze role of short-term storage in reading of organized text. By interrupting the subject's reading with a distractor task, information that was being carried in short-term storage was removed. It was found that this interruption effect could be countered by giving the subject the last one or two sentences that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Memory, Reading Comprehension
Slamecka, Norman J.; Barlow, William – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
A series of three experiments investigated repetition effects on recall with homographic responses. It was concluded that the repetition increment was mediated solely by commonality of surface features and that semantic features played no role. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Memory, Recall (Psychology)
