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Direct linkReichelt, Amy C.; Morris, Margaret J.; Westbrook, Reginald Frederick – Learning & Memory, 2016
High sugar diets reduce hippocampal neurogenesis, which is required for minimizing interference between memories, a process that involves "pattern separation." We provided rats with 2 h daily access to a sucrose solution for 28 d and assessed their performance on a spatial memory task. Sucrose consuming rats discriminated between objects…
Descriptors: Animals, Spatial Ability, Control Groups, Memory
Wittrock, M. C. – Educational Psychologist, 2010
A cognitive model of human learning with understanding is introduced. Empirical research supporting the model, which is called the generative model, is summarized. The model is used to suggest a way to integrate some of the research in cognitive development, human learning, human abilities, information processing, and aptitude-treatment…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Information Processing, Cognitive Development, Models
Mayer, Richard E. – Educational Psychologist, 2010
Among his many accomplishments in educational psychology, Merlin C. Wittrock is perhaps best remembered for his enduring contributions to the science of learning. His vision of how learning works is best explicated in articles published in "Educational Psychologist" (Wittrock, 1974, 1978, 1989, 1991, 1992), beginning with his classic 1974 article,…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Educational Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Prior Learning
Kahan, Todd A.; Mathis, Katherine M. – Teaching of Psychology, 2007
An online demonstration, designed to enhance comprehension of Sternberg's (1966) short-term memory scanning task, involved rapidly searching under virtual cups for a ball. We randomly assigned students to 1 of 3 groups, all of whom read the same textbook description of Sternberg's work: A demonstration group used 3 search methods to look for balls…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Short Term Memory, Control Groups, Reaction Time
Schmitter-Edgecombe, M.; Bales, J.W. – Brain and Language, 2005
A think-aloud method was used to examine the content of information available to working memory during narrative comprehension in a CHI population. Twenty severe CHI participants (>1 year post-injury) and 20 controls talked aloud after they read each sentence of story narratives. Trabasso and Magliano's (1996a) verbal protocol analysis was then…
Descriptors: Memory, Inferences, Control Groups, Protocol Analysis
Peer reviewedMontgomery, James W. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1995
Examined the phonological memory capacity, rate of articulation, phonological encoding, and perceptual-processing abilities of 13 specifically language-impaired (SLI) children and 13 language-matched normal (NL) children. The results of a nonsense word repetition task showed that SLI children repeated significantly fewer multisyllabic nonsense…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups
