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Imagery and prose: A critical review of research on adults and children
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A critical review of recent psychological research on the role of imagery processes in prose comprehemion and memorization in adults and children can be found in this paper, where the effects of imagery have been studied by means of experiments which involve varying the imagery value of sentences in prose, instructing readers to form visual images while reading, adding illustrations to prose in order to aid readers' imagery, and comparing individuals who have different levels of imagery ability.Abstract:
This paper is a critical review of recent psychological research on the role of imagery processes in prose comprehemion and memorization in adults and children. The effects of imagery have been studied by means of experiments which involve varying the imagery value of sentences in prose, instructing readers to form visual images while reading, adding illustrations to prose in order to aid readers' imagery, and comparing individuals who have different levels of imagery ability. The results ofthese experiments are summarized and evaluated äs to their relevance to the general question of the role o f imagery in the cognitive processing of text.read more
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Contextual prerequisites for understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall
TL;DR: This article showed that relevant contextual knowledge is a prerequisite for comprehending prose passages and showed that providing Ss with the same information subsequent to the passages produced much lower comprehension ratings and recall scores.
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Visual imagery differences in the recall of pictures.
TL;DR: Male and female subjects who differed in their verbal reports of visual image vividness were tested for recall in three experiments involving coloured photographs as stimuli and subjects who report vivid visual imagery were more accurate in recall than subjects who reported poor visual imagery.
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Mental models in cognitive science
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The mental representation of spatial descriptions
TL;DR: Two experiments investigated the mental representation of spatial descriptions and showed that, although the semantic implications of a determinate description are better remembered than are those of an indeterminate description, the verbatim details of an Indeterminate Description are easier to recall than are Those of a determined description.