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Macnamara, John; Kushnir, Seymour L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Research funded by a grant from the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research McGill University and by a Canada Council grant. (VM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, English, Experiments
Schustack, Miriam W.; Anderson, John R. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Two experiments explored how memory for new information is affected by awareness of parallels to pre-experimental knowledge. Results suggest that the benefit of prior knowledge derives from the more elaborate encodings that analogy promotes. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experiential Learning, Experimental Psychology, Information Theory
