Eighteen college students solved addition problems using the Hutchings Low Fatigue Addition Algorithm, which requires a written record of running sums, and the standard algorithm, which does not. Students using the Hutchings algorithm had significantly higher reaction times to a tone, indicating that the Hutchings method requires less cognitive…

Two experiments were conducted to test the possibility that children are slower than adults because they are less able than adults to process the information available about subsequent events in parallel with an ongoing response. Subjects were second, third, and sixth graders and college students. (MP)

Results of three experiments indicated that latency of correct recognition was sensitive to the influence of a priming treatment. The magnitude of the priming effect depended on both the taxonomic frequency of the probe items, and the length of the interval between the prime and the recognition test. (Author/RD)

Verbal analogy solution is more flexible than is suggested by either the standard process theory or Sternberg's theory. It was determined that subjects initially examine terms A and B; if this strategy is not successful, they examine the relationship between A and C. (Author/CP)

Two groups of eight young adults (mean IQ=68) were compared under conditions in which Ss were instructed either to respond as quickly and accurately as possible or to respond accurately and were praised each time that a response was slower than their mean reaction time (RT) during the initial session. (Author)

Investigates the structural differences in the representation of balance and imbalance information by using a technique originated by Sternberg (1966). Subjects were 38 college students. (MP)

Five reaction time experiments explored word frequency effects in word-nonword decision tasks and in pronunciation and memory tasks. Analysis of the response latencies using Sternberg's additive-factors approach indicates that frequency effects consist of both effects in encoding and in retrieval from memory. (Editor/RK)

Experimental studies indicate that in physical education visual information at first presentation leads to better retention than kinesthetic information. (JD)

Examines serial naming speed and its association with reading ability. Suggests that children aged 4.0 to 5.5 years show wide variability in serial naming speed that is predominately attributable to the length of the pauses between the articulated words. Notes that there appears to be a developmental association between the duration of the pauses…

This study measured naming reaction times of 40 normal or reading disordered (RD) children to picture stimuli of varying vocabulary age and spatial dimension. Dimension appeared to differentiate between the two groups with the control group faster in naming three-dimensional pictures and the RD group faster in naming two-dimensional stimuli. RD…

Used computer-administered tests to measure the reaction time to nonverbal stimuli of 4- through 6-year-olds and adults. Found age-related increases in processing speed that could not be attributed to increased accuracy and error rate monitoring. Used these results to evaluate R. Kail's (1991) model of processing speed, which adequately accounted…

The relationship between psychometric intelligence and 2 selective reaction time (RT) tasks was determined for 81 university students (27 males and 54 females). Results generally support the paradigm of W. E. Hick (1952). Some surprising findings are discussed with respect to the specific demands of selective RT tasks. (SLD)

The effects of retinal displacement on reaction time and parameters within the Hick Paradigm were studied, using 80 university students. Focus was on the effects of practice, order, and visual attention. The effect of retinal displacement was of no practical or theoretical importance in the context of Jensen's research. (SLD)

The technique for examining the time course of information processing developed by D. E. Meyer et. al. (1988) is analyzed. Research is provided, which suggests that this new method gives important qualitative support to some stochastic models and quantitative support to the continuous diffusion model of information processing. (SLD)

Simultaneous recordings of auditory brainstem and middle latency responses were obtained in both vertex-ipsilateral and vertex-contralateral derivations in 22 children, ages 8-12. For specific recording conditions, the latencies of middle latency responses differ significantly between children with and without learning disabilities, offering…