The present study was an attempt to clarify the conditions under which integrated recognition memory and specific recognition memory are found. To do this, the ability of students to remember semantically related and unrelated sentences was examined. (Author/RK)

Preschool children were tested for their understanding of the use of definite and indefinite articles in 2 kinds of story-telling tasks. (ST)

The "transitive-chain" theory of syllogistic reasoning proposes that information about set relations is presented in memory by pairs of informational components and that information about set relations is integrated by applying a small set of rules to transitive chains that are found by rearranging informational components stored in…

Sixty four college students participated in a study which sought to validate a set of predictions about story memory, derived from a story-grammar approach to comprehension. The grammar describes the higher-order structures regulating the organization and retrieval of incoming story information. These structures, defined by a basic set of rewrite…

Describes two systems used in identifying the content structures of a number of passages of approximately 600 words, and discusses the implications of the research for developing future instructional materials. (RB)

Results are reported which show that the facilitating effect of recall on recognition is quite substantial. (AM)

The development of the ability to use taxonomic, phonemic and sense impression categories as dimensions of encoding was investigated using third and fifth graders and college students. (ED)

Examined the presence or absence of class inclusion and hierarchical classification skills in relation to organizational memory strategies in kindergarten and first grade children. (ED)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate interference in pigeon short-term memory using an intertrial interference paradigm. (Author)

Research was conducted to clarify the previously reported recognition superiority of balanced over polarized homographs. (Editor)

The present study suggested that simple nameable pictures and individual words both involve the use of verbal processes in retention, and to about the same extent. (Author/RK)

A new theory for discrete motor learning was proposed that seemed capable of explaining a number of closed-loop postulations. (Editor/RK)

Reports results of an exploratory study in which a total of 80 children (in kindergarten, first, third and fifth grades) were interviewed in order to sample their knowledge of how certain classes of variables act and interact with one another to affect the quality of an individual's performance on a retrieval problem. (ED)