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Dunn, Bruce R.; And Others – 1988
Electrical brain activity (EEG) was recorded while 13 male and 11 female college students performed a series of recognition and memory tasks. The subjects were right-handed and between 21 and 42 years old. The selected tasks varied in cognitive load from simple recognition of a word flashed on a computer screen to relatively complex serial and…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Style, College Students, Electroencephalography
Peer reviewedNissen, Mary Jo; Bullemer, Peter – Cognitive Psychology, 1987
Four experiments investigated the attentional requirements of learning as assessed by a serial reaction time task. The effects of a dual-task condition, plus the responses of memory disorder patients, were also investigated. The relationship between learning and awareness, preserved learning in amnesia, and the separateness of memory systems are…
Descriptors: Attention, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Memory
Peer reviewedRichardson, John T. E. – Cognitive Psychology, 1979
A system of precategorized acoustic storage has accounted for the recency effect obtained in the immediate serial recall of sequences of digits, consonants, or syllables. Four experiments in recall of word sequences investigated fit to this model. A system of postcategorical lexical storage was concluded to explain the results. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
