Seventy-five subjects were trained on a pursuit rotor for 10 trials, with ambient illumination from a strobe light flashing at frequencies of either 2,5,10,15, or 20 per second. A transfer trial followed, with a strobe flashing frequency of 10 per second for all subjects. Results supported hypotheses derived from Adams' closed-loop theory of motor…

In 3 experiments, 163 college students who read a summary with a sequence of short captions with simple illustrations depicting steps in a process recalled the steps and solved transfer problems as well as or better than students who received the full text with a summary or alone. (SLD)

A study investigated the proposition that males have a predominant tendency to encode visually when reading, whereas females tend to encode phonologically. Arabic symbols were used to teach a group of 24 college students to "read." Subjects were assigned randomly to one of two conditions: learning the symbols as "letters" one by one with the aid…