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Cave, Kyle R.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1994
Three experiments involving 107 adults who performed mental rotation tasks explored how location information is incorporated into image representation. Results suggest that image is coded retinotopically in image representations and that there is no spatiotropic transform in the early stages of visual processing. (SLD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Coding, Cognitive Processes

Johnstone, Theresa; Shanks, David R. – Cognitive Psychology, 2001
Evaluated the contribution of rule, exemplar, fragment, and episodic knowledge in artificial grammar learning using memorization versus hypothesis testing training tasks in 5 experiments involving a total of 163 college students. There was no evidence that memorization led to abstraction of rules or encoding of whole exemplars. Results support an…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Coding, College Students, Grammar