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Dall, Jonas Olsen; Wang, Yong-ming; Cai, Xin-lu; Chan, Raymond C. K.; Sørensen, Thomas Alrik – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Using Chinese characters, we investigated how stroke count and frequency of use influence attention and short-term memory (STM) encoding in Mainland Chinese speakers. To isolate specific components of attention we employed the Theory of Visual Attention (TVA), which allowed estimates of STM capacity, processing speed, and the threshold of visual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Visual Stimuli, Short Term Memory
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Zhou, Lulin; Duff, Fiona J.; Hulme, Charles – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
We report a training study that assesses whether teaching the pronunciation and meaning of spoken words improves Chinese children's subsequent attempts to learn to read the words. Teaching the pronunciations of words helps children to learn to read those same words, and teaching the pronunciations and meanings improves learning still further.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Oral Reading, Alphabets
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Algarabel, S.; Pitarque, A.; Combita, L. M.; Rodriguez, L. A. – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2013
We study the contribution of implicit relatedness to associative recognition in two experiments. In the first experiment, we showed an implicit improvement in recognition when the stimulus elements of each word pair shared common letters and they were unpaired at test. Moreover, when asked to study the stimuli under divided attention, recollection…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Recall (Psychology), Tests, Associative Learning