The purpose of this study was to determine if stimuli of high potential imagery (pictures) would be less subject to negative transfer than stimuli of lower potential imagery (concrete words). (Editor)

Four experiments are reported which employ a recall-reaction time paradigm. The experiments are designed to establish the baseline effects in the paradigm, determine which of these effects should be attributed to the retrieval stage of processing and investigate the effect of semantic memory in this task. (Author/DEP)

Briefly discusses what time means to an American Indian. (NQ)

Part of the unique status of picture recognition ability may lie in the procedure used to assess the ability and the great complexity of the stimulus itself. Pictures coupled with the recognition procedure may produce unexpected results, as this article attempted to demonstrate. (Author/RK)

Pictures of common objects apparently function as effective memory representations without evoking their corresponding name codes. The first three experiments of this report were designed to explore the limits of the independence of the naming process by varying relationships between the labels for the pictures and their responses. (Author)

The present investigation examines interactions among components of coherent pictorial stimuli. One purpose of the investigation was to establish whether components contribute independently and additively to the effectiveness of the compound stimulus, or whether the effectiveness of components is interdependent, that is, positively or negatively…

Authors questioned whether the familiarity effect in the processing of words is a "perceptual" phenomenon or whether it is produced by visual rather than verbal mechanisms. (Author/RK)

The importance of awareness of the pictorial surface and point of observation was investigated in children and adults. The effect of station point was found to interact with pictorial surface and age, thus suggesting the development of a mechanism of compensation for the perspective distortion of oblique view. (JMB)

Two studies investigated memory processes involved in the Visual-Sequential Memory subtest of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. In study 1, differences between second and fourth graders were due to greater use of stimulus labeling strategies by fourth graders. In study 2, labeling strategies were taught, improving performance.…

The study determined whether eight undergraduate normal listeners, presented with filtered speech, would produce consonant confusions similar to those previously reported for the hearing-impaired listener. (Author/SBH)

Language samples were elicited from seven children (4 to 9 years old) with language disorders in three different stimulus conditions. (SBH)

Recent laboratory work on the recall of pictures has produced a pattern suggesting that memory for certain classes of stimuli may be hypermnesiac rather than amnesiac (Ebbinghaus, 1885/1964), increasing over time and recall attempts. This research tries to determine the magnitude of memory growth over significant time intervals, e.g., a week…

The galvanic skin responses of ten seniors currently completing student teaching assignments and ten freshmen with no prior special education work were measured to neutral, low and high arousal special education words. Seniors were significantly more responsive than the freshmen to all word types. (Author)