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T C Daniel

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PubMed1976

Recognition gradients for random shapes following distinctive or equivalent verbal association training.

The effect of distinctive and equivalent verbal label training on a subsequent test of recognition memory for random shapes were assessed. Shape continua, systematically relating the labeled shapes, were used in the memory test so that gradients of recognition memory were obtained. Distinctive-nonrepresentative-label training produced symmetrical recognition gradients with a single mode at the correct target shape. Equivalent-label training produced symmetrical gradients that were as steep as the distinctive-label gradients, but the mode of the equivalent-label gradients was shifted to a distractor shape that varied from the target in the direction of the equivalent-label shape. The results offered support to a Gestalt/configurational account of the effects of verbal labels on memory for form, but the data were also consistent with an extension of Ellis' conceptual coding hypothesis. It was concluded that, rather than being a competing alternative account, the conceptual coding hypothesis may be viewed as an updated, more analytic statement of the older Gestalt view.

Association Learning↗
PubMed1975

Recognition latency for pictures and words as a function of encoded-feature similarity.

In separate trials of a same-different recognition task, a single target item presented as either a picture or a word was followed after a 30-sec delay by a single test item, either a picture or a word. Test items were either nominal matches for the target (same) or one of five related distractor items. Distractors were selected to resemble the target item on one of five dimensions: orthographic, acoustic, conceptual (functional or categorical), schematic (similar in shape), or neutral. Same-different reaction times were found to vary systematically as a function of depiction mode of target and/or test items and by distractor type. Verbally related distractors (orthographic and acoustic) produced longer reaction times when target or test items or both were presented as printed words. When target or test items were presented as pictures, schematic and conceptual distractors produced the longest rejection latencies.

Acoustic Stimulation↗