Study resulting in the conclusion that the semantic relationships between words in the bilingual's languages influence tasks involving secondary memory, whereas no interlingual interference occurs in a second learning situation depending mostly upon primary memory. (Author/FWB)

Research supported in part by a contract with the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity OEO-2404.

Compared three techniques for teaching name-to-face associations to older adults. Participants (N=60) were divided into no image (control), image, and image plus judgment groups. Results showed strong improvement in remembering names when interactive imagery was used. Those in the image plus judgment group showed less forgetting in recall.…

The hypothesis that one factor underlying the feeling of knowing is the degree of prior learning for the sought-after item was explored. The magnitude of the feeling of knowing nonrecalled items increased with the degree of prior learning. (Author/PN)

Twelve- and 18-year-olds learned a list of paired associates; experimental subjects were instructed in mnemonics, while controls simply learned the pairings. When subjects were presented a list of Latin nouns and their translations to learn, spontaneous transfer of the mnemonic strategy occurred only among 18-year-olds. (Author/GDC)

In experiment 1, 48 first-grade children were presented one of four elaboration strategies or labeling instructions during a single study trial and then recalled 16 paired associates. In experiment 2, 32 first-grade children were trained over a four-day period in the use of an interrogative elaboration strategy or received labeling instructions.…

Sought to elucidate the nature of odor memory by applying paradigms from verbal learning and semantic memory and to investigate two processes affecting paired-associate performance. (Author/RK)

Effects of acute alcohol intoxication on the storage phase of memory were evaluated with two tasks that minimized response retrieval: unpaced paired-associate learning with highly available responses and forced-choice picture recognition. It was concluded that storage processes are sensitive to disruption by alcohol. (CHK)

Compared six experimental conditions to determine whether specific formats of interrogatives would be instrumental in inducing the generation of effective verbal mediators for 30 nonretarded and 60 educable mentally retarded children. (Author/JMB)

Convergent data suggest dissociated roles for the lateral (LA) and basolateral (BLA) amygdaloid nuclei in fear conditioning, depending on whether a discrete conditioned stimulus (CS)-unconditional stimulus (US) or context-US association is considered. Here, we show that pretraining inactivation of the BLA selectively impaired conditioning to…

The development of paired associate learning and formal thinking during adolescence was investigated with 78 sixth and tenth grade students. The hypothesis predicting paired associate learning to be positively related to divergent thinking, and negatively related to formal thinking was not supported. (Author/DEP)

Investigated the hypothesis that children who sustain specific reading disabilities experience difficulty in abstracting and generalizing the invariant components of words containing redundant elements because of basic dysfunction in categorical processing. Subjects were 120 poor and normal readers from the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades.…

Presents the results of two matching-to-sample experiments using color cues in Consonant-Vowel-Consonant stimulus words with kindergarten to third grade subjects. (RB)