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Smith, S. Adam; Mulligan, Neil W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The typical pattern of results in divided attention experiments is that subjects in a full attention (FA) condition perform markedly better on tests of memory than subjects in a divided attention (DA) condition which forces subjects to split their attention between studying to-be-remembered stimuli and completing some peripheral task.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Tests, Memory, Task Analysis
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Monaghan, Padraic; Shillcock, Richard; McDonald, Scott – Brain and Language, 2004
We report a series of neural network models of semantic processing of single English words in the left and the right hemispheres of the brain. We implement the foveal splitting of the visual field and assess the influence of this splitting on a mapping from orthography to semantic representations in single word reading. The models were trained on…
Descriptors: Models, Semantics, English, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Dunckley, Candida J. Lutes; Radtke, Robert C. – 1977
Two semantic theories of word learning, a perceptual complexity hypothesis (H. Clark, 1970) and a quantitative complexity hypothesis (E. Clark, 1972) were tested by teaching 24 preschoolers and 16 college students CVC labels for five polar spatial adjective concepts having single word representations in English, and for three having no direct…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation