Modeling and attention-retention were examined in 20 boys (ages 9- to 14-years-old) attending a residential school for children with learning disabilities. (Author/DB)

Compared retention functions for children with those for young adults and elderly subjects in continuous recognition memory for words over retention intervals ranging from 2 minutes to 2 hours. (SDH)

Computer analysis of linguistic models leads the author to state that highly controlled transient memory should be considered in studies of the learning and use of grammar. (SD)

The experiments reported here attempted to examine the processing demands during a directed forgetting operation and to permit a comparison between pupillary response and secondary task performance as indexes of information processing. (Author/RK)

Describes the latest innovations in theatrical lighting control boards. (CH)

Research is reported in which a memory-for-marked-semantic-features theory was juxtaposed to a memory-for-meaning theory. The results were interpreted as supporting a global memory-for-meaning theory. (Author/RM)

A study is reported in which subjects were shown sentences, some of which they had read previously, after intervals ranging from a few minutes to 32 days. Results show that information about typography can be recovered for at least 32 days after initial reading. Implications are discussed. (Author/RM)

A set of experiments are reported in which it was found that most subjects were better at identifying both meaning and wording changes in concrete sentences and subjects took significantly longer to encode and decode the abstract sentences. Implications of these findings are discussed. (Author/RM)

Concludes that recall of a second item of a pair when cued with the first was significantly influenced by both pair relationship and the processing task. (RB)

Suggests that patterns of abilities are the best cross-cultural evidence for the effects of environment and culture upon memory development. An object and place recall task was administered to 5- and 7-year-old American and Guatemalan children. (Author/SDH)

One of a series of semiannual reports, this paper presents articles exploring the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical research applications. Titles of the papers and their authors are as follows: (1) "Lexical Organization and Welsh Consonant Mutations" (S. Boyce, C. P.…

Ways in which elementary school teachers can encourage children's maintenance and generalization of memory strategies were investigated. Questions guiding the research were: Does the teacher (1) Repeat strategy suggestions frequently? (2) Give a rationale for strategy use or feedback concerning the effectiveness of the strategy? and (3) Attempt to…

This paper presents a process-structural model of the planning of drawings in childhood, and reports on seven experiments investigating children's ability to plan their drawings in advance. Three constructs are basic to the model: a figural scheme or schema, a spatial mental model, and a working memory called "M operator" or…