Verbal Overshadowing of Visual Memories: Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid.

Schooler, Jonathan W.; Engstler-Schooler, Tonya Y.

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Publication Date: 1990

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Verbal Overshadowing of Visual Memories: Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid.

Schooler, Jonathan W.; Engstler-Schooler, Tonya Y.

Cognitive Psychology, v22 n1 p36-71 Jan 1990

The hypothesis that describing a visual memory can result in recoding interference was investigated in a series of 6 experiments with 518 college students. Collective results were consistent with the hypothesis; verbalizing memory can produce a verbally biased memory representation that can interfere with the original visual memory. (SLD)

Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Memory, Recognition (Psychology), Verbal Communication, Verbal Learning, Visual Perception

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