Showing papers in "Cognitive Psychology in 1987"

TL;DR: This article investigated whether performance measures would also show a strong dependence on attention and found that patients with Korsakoff's syndrome learned the sequence despite their lack of awareness of the repeating pattern.

TL;DR: Two experiments establish links between desired knowledge about objects and hand movements during haptic object exploration, and establish that in free exploration, a procedure is generally used to acquire information about an object property, not because it is merely sufficient, butBecause it is optimal or even necessary.

TL;DR: The results and others suggest that kinematic and temporal properties of imagined spatial transformations are more object-specific in nature than could be previously assumed.

TL;DR: This article investigated the role of programming knowledge in program comprehension and the nature of mental representations of programs; specifically, whether procedural (control flow) or functional (goal hierarchy) relations dominate programmers' mental representations.

TL;DR: A computer-implemented caricature generator based on a holistic theory of caricature suggested that this theory may be appropriate for classes of visual stimuli, other than faces, whose members share a configuration definable by a fixed set of points.

TL;DR: It is found that people will abandon unidimensional sorting in favor of sorting by correlated properties, especially when they can be causally connected, and when conceptual knowledge is added which makes interproperty relationships salient, family resemblance sorting becomes fairly common.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework is proposed to account for strategy selection in question answering, and six experiments support the assumptions of the proposed framework: the first three experiments show that strategy selection is under the strategic control of the subjects, while Experiment 6 suggests variables that influence the evaluation of the question.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the finding that phrase structure cues are a necessary aspect of language input reflects the limited capacities of human language learners; languages may incorporate structural cues in part to circumvent such limitations and ensure successful acquisition.

TL;DR: An experiment with failure in the achievement of object-centered representation of three-dimensional wire objects was described, with an appreciable drop in the recognition of the objects in b, the displacement of which resulted in an altered retinal projection.

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether or not instruments are explicitly mentioned in short stories in accordance with their likelihood of being inferred, and they found that atypical instruments (e.g., an ice pick in a stabbing) were specified significantly more often than typical instruments.

TL;DR: This article identified three types of overgeneral uses of object names and argued that two of these reflect communicative functions rather than complexive meanings, and there was no evidence of undergeneral use.

TL;DR: It is argued that a serial model involving competition between target detectionbased on a prelexical representation and detection based on a lexical representation most satisfactorily accounts for the overall pattern of results.

TL;DR: The experiments revealed that transformations not related to actual physical momentum, such as changes in the pitches of tones, can produce representational momentum, suggesting that representational Momentum is abstractly related to physical momentum.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cognitive theory on the production and shaping of self-repairs during speaking is presented, which is based on the repair strategy called reformulation, and a different set of rules is at work.

TL;DR: An information-processing model is constructed that emphasizes the inhibition of verbal output as the central process and, according to this model, hypnotically susceptible subjects fail to report “forbidden” material because it has been tagged as "forbidden" in response to the hypnotic suggestion for forgetting.