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Download full textLandrum, R. Eric; Meliska, Charles J. – 1985
Some research on the stimulant effect of caffeine suggests that the amount of behavioral enhancement produced by caffeine may depend on subjects' prior experience with the task and the drug. A study was undertaken to test whether prior experience with a task while under the influence of caffeine would facilitate performance of that task. Male…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Performance Factors, Reaction Time
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 reviewedMason, Mildred – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1982
Three experiments report additional evidence that it is a mistake to account for all interletter effects solely in terms of sensory variables. These experiments attest to the importance of structural variables such as retina location, array size, and ordinal position. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Eye Fixations, Higher Education
