Jeffery J. Franks

TL;DR: Levels of processing were manipulated as a function of acquisition task and type of recognition test in three experiments to show that semantic acquisition was superior to rhyme acquisition given a standard recognition test, whereas rhyming acquisition was inferior to semantic acquisition givenA rhyming recognition test.

TL;DR: Results indicate that during an acquisition phase of the experiments, Ss spontaneously integrate the information expressed by a number of non-consecutively experienced (but semantically related) sentences into wholistic, semantic ideas, where these ideas encompass more information than any acquisition sentence contained.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the adequacy of an interpretive linguistic approach to the description of the knowledge communicated by sentences by asking whether sentence retention was primarily a function of memory for the semantically interpreted deep structural relations underlying the input sentences or a function for the overall semantic situations that such sentences described.

TL;DR: The goal in this chapter is to examine the task of preparing people for the future by exploring the notion that wisdom can be told, and it is found that Balzac's ideas fit the authors' experiences quite well.

TL;DR: This article found that recall cues were more effective when the properties were relevant, rather than irrelevant, to the events described by corresponding acquisition sentences, which raised considerations pertinent to theories of semantic encoding, to semantic theories in linguistics, and to the role of normative data in psycholinguistic theories of comprehension.