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Clay, Felix; Bowers, Jeffrey S.; Davis, Colin J.; Hanley, Derek A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
Semantic and orthographic learning of new words was investigated with the help of the picture-word interference (PWI) task. In this version of the Stroop task, picture naming is delayed by the simultaneous presentation of a semantically related as opposed to an unrelated distractor word (a specific PWI effect), as well as by an unrelated word…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Adults, Verbal Stimuli
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Kau, Alice S. M.; Winer, Gerald A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
The incidental memory of young children was tested for words or words plus pictures that were initially presented under orienting conditions. These conditions required responses to acoustic or semantic qualities of the stimuli and an affirmative or negative response to the orienting questions. (PCB)
Descriptors: Acoustics, Age Differences, Incidental Learning, Memory
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Sidtis, John J.; And Others – Science, 1981
Assesses the sensory and cognitive functions in a right-handed male before and after partial and complete callosal commissurotomy. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis, Higher Education, Memory