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Spiro, Rand J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Reports an experiment which supports the predictions of the accommodative-reconstruction hypothesis that recall is not based on retrieval of stored traces of interpreted experience. It involves accommodating details of what is to be remembered to what is known at the time of recall. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Language Processing, Learning Processes, Memory
Jackson, Mark D.; McClelland, James L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Fast and average readers were tested on four tasks. Fast readers appear to pick up more information per fixation on structured textual material, and had a greater span of apprehension for unrelated elements. Results disagree with the view that reading speed depends solely on ability to infer missing information. (CHK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Reading Ability
