Forty-eight blind children, able to cope with set sizes of two and three, four, five or six serial items were tested on probed recall of Braille letters they could either name or discriminate. (Editor/RK)

The present study investigated how much surface structure and meaning is retained when subjects process sentences at different levels of analysis at presentation. (Author/RK)

Two experiments examined memory load, rule frequency, and rule arrangement in the prediction learning of serial digit patterns. (Editor)

The purpose of this article is to introduce a task and methodology that will enable the measurement and study of the elementary processes underlying imagery. (Author)

Two distinguishing characteristics of speech perception are the rate at which speech can be perceived and the proficiency with which temporal order information is preserved. The present article is concerned primarily with the latter. (Author/RK)

Three converging findings suggested that long movements are under feedback control whereas short movements are predominantly programmed and ballistic in nature. (Author/RK)

This article reports the first of a series of studies to determine whether the lead-stimulus paradigm would yield results in man similar to those obtained in other organisms. (Author)

The results of these experiments supported the contention that the use of different organizational strategies on two word lists reduced the amount of retroactive inhibition in free recall. (Author/RK)

Previous studies on common fears have been vague and have not met requirements for using factor analysis. To avoid some of these problems, a broader age range and a separate analysis of males and females were designed for a sample of 545 individuals, ages 15-89, who responded to 133 fear-scale items. "Death of a loved one" was the greatest fear…

This paper reviews the research literature pertaining to the use of poetry writing in counseling and psychotherapy as a therapeutic intervention. The paper begins with the theoretical perspectives of poetry, then discusses S. Freud's and C. Jung's views of poetry from the psychological perspective. This is followed by a discussion of studies on…

Prepared as part of a larger work on human intelligence, this report examines basic attentional and perceptual contributions to intelligence. The report is organized into two sections: the first summarizes and evaluates research that has tried to uncover basic information processing skills that account for individual differences in intelligence;…

The aim of this study was to explore the aesthetic impact of a literary text on the human mind and to extend the knowledge on how and when the information from a book enters the human brain, and if and when it starts to be processed and, possibly, memorized. Readers' responses to aesthetic texts were measured through a series of biometric…

Research into brain physiology and dream psychology have helped to illuminate the biological purposes and processes of dreaming. Physical and functional characteristics shared by dreaming and television include the perception of visual and auditory images, operation in a binary mode, and the encoding of visual information. Research is needed in…

Two tasks were used to choose between two rival accounts--cognitive vs. pragmatic--of children's failure to comprehend metaphors. A total of 120 children, in three age groups (6, 7, and 9 years) were given either an explication or a multiple choice task to assess comprehension of 15 novel comparisons expressed in five alternative forms varying in…

This study is concerned with how much children remember about a salient event in their life, how much is forgotten over time, and whether age at the time of the event affects how much is remembered. Thirty-six children (ages 4, 8, and 12) and 26 college students, all of whom had a sibling born when they were age 4, were either interviewed or given…