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Stiver, Mikaela L.; Jacklin, Derek L.; Mitchnick, Krista A.; Vicic, Nevena; Carlin, Justine; O'Hara, Matthew; Winters, Boyer D. – Learning & Memory, 2015
Consolidated memories can become destabilized and open to modification upon retrieval. Destabilization is most reliably prompted when novel information is present during memory reactivation. We hypothesized that the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) plays an important role in novelty-induced memory destabilization because of its established…
Descriptors: Memory, Animals, Recognition (Psychology), Mnemonics
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Paas, Fred; Sweller, John – Educational Psychology Review, 2012
Cognitive load theory is intended to provide instructional strategies derived from experimental, cognitive load effects. Each effect is based on our knowledge of human cognitive architecture, primarily the limited capacity and duration of a human working memory. These limitations are ameliorated by changes in long-term memory associated with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Psychology, Memory, Long Term Memory
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Unsworth, Nash; Brewer, Gene A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
The authors of the current study examined the relationships among item-recognition, source-recognition, free recall, and other memory and cognitive ability tasks via an individual differences analysis. Two independent sources of variance contributed to item-recognition and source-recognition performance, and these two constructs related…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Recall (Psychology), Memory, Cognitive Ability
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Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Rovee-Collier, Carolyn – Child Development, 1996
Three studies, involving 72 3-month-old infants, demonstrated that infants remembered some of the original feature combinations of a mobile they had been trained to activate for up to 3 days but forgot all of them after 4 days. Even after 4 days, however, infants remembered the individual features that had entered into the original combinations.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Color, Infants, Long Term Memory