This study examined the role of stimulus characteristics in a visuospatial order reconstruction task in which participants were required to recall the order of sequences of spatial locations. The complexity of the to-be-remembered sequences, as measured by path crossing, path length, and angles, was found to affect serial memory, in terms of both…

Background: Three experiments investigated the role of inner speech deficit in cognitive performances of children with autism. Methods: Experiment 1 compared children with autism with ability-matched controls on a verbal recall task presenting pictures and words. Experiment 2 used pictures for which the typical names were either single syllable or…

Specific auditory and visual memory training (15 minute sessions for 25 days) resulted in significant improvements in 42 kindergarteners' ability to retain stimuli. (CL)

A probe-type serial memory task was used to determine whether 3-dimensional objects would produce better recall than colored pictures of the same objects in elementary school students with low IQ's. (ST)

Ninety-six participants, who were younger (20 years) or older (68 years) adults and either monolingual or bilingual, completed tasks assessing working memory, lexical retrieval, and executive control. Younger participants performed most of the tasks better than older participants, confirming the effect of aging on these processes. The effect of…

This experiment tested the hypothesis that dream recallers would have better memory for visual stimuli than dream nonrecallers. (Editor)

Study based on M.A. Thesis submitted to Memphis State University (Meador, 1967).

Assessed 32 preschoolers' coding processes under aural and visual input modalities. It was found that preschoolers' free recall was affected by semantic rather than phonetic similarity, regardless of input modality. (Author/RH)

Suggests that it is sometimes useful to consider information as being encoded as images, sometimes as language, and sometimes as propositions, and describes research that provides evidence of processing in all these forms. (Author)

In four experiments 192 infants of five to six months of age were tested for recognition memory of briefly presented visual stimuli. The implications of savings effects in infant memory are discussed. (Author/MP)

Investigates the extent to which kindergarten children (mean age 5.8 years) allocate their processing resources selectively to the relevant components of a visual array. (MP)

Two experiments investigated the development of verbal rehearsal strategies and selective attention in learning disabled children. In Experiment 1, Hagen's Central-Incidental task was administered to younger learning disabled and normal boys. In Experiment 2 the task was given to intermediate and older boys along with an experimentally induced…

Younger (n=58) and older (n=49) adults completed the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test and recall tests of verbal and visual stimuli with maximum and minimum semantic support. Category support did not help young adults who exercised less. Older adults' exercise had no effect on use of category support; less-frequent exercisers had poorer results…