This paper presents evidence that four design principles commonly embodied in artificial knowledge systems are inconsistent with human cognitive capabilities. Because these principles are widely accepted as characteristics of human knowledge processing, common theoretical properties related to cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence which…

Two studies were conducted to determine whether preschool children automatically use spatial context to aid recall of objects or whether the ability to use spatial context as a retrieval aid is a deliberate mnemonic strategy that develops later. In the first experiment, a total of 32 children (16 aged 3 and 16 aged 4) participated in a memory task…

Implicitly repeating categories by presenting words not present in the original categorized list but logically members of previously studied categories significantly increased acquisition and retention relative to repeating category labels, repeating members of categories, and repeating neither labels nor members. The efficiency of repetition…

A variant of the Peterson (1959) paradigm was used to investigate retrieval of single pairs of items varying in imagery value. Latency to respond showed that if one item was concrete, no differential retrieval speeds were found. This result supports an organizational view of imagery. (CHK)

An attempt was made to attenuate the severe anterograde amnesia of a patient with Korsakoff's Psychosis through the imposition of cues to assist memory. (Editor)

Examines the relationship between the ease with which a picture is interpreted and the structural similarity between the picture and the subject it represents. Preschoolers, first graders, sixth graders, and college students participated in the study. (CW)

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the results obtained by Knowles et al. were a result of varying levels of redundancy or varying levels of other task parameters. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the distinctiveness of stimulus cues on the relevant and irrelevant dimensions - both in original learning and in transfer - on the learning of intradimensional shifts by retarded subjects. (Author)

Tested kindergarten, first-, second-, and third-grade children to determine if other developmental changes in drawings might have obscured an underlying change in the tendency to seriate. (Author/SDH)

Forty subjects were trained to make numerical predictions of a criterion from a cue. (Editor)

Two experiments explored the effects of three processing tasks on cued recall of related and unrelated word pairs. (Editor)

In two experiments adult subjects were given a redundant relevant cues concept identification problem. (Editor)

The developmental memory research with children indicates that highly variable rehearsal leads to better overall recall and that the strength of interitem associations may play some role in improving recall. This paper reports on two experiments to investigate the interplay between the number and strength of interitem associations, and how each is…

Introspection is a technique which can be used to explore memory. For this study, two questions were posed: (1) do students who better retain previously learned intellectual skills and propositions report a greater number of links between and within Gagne and White's four memory structures (networks of propositions, intellectual skills, images,…