Perceptual Identification, Fragment Completion, and Free Recall: Concepts and Data

The effects of orthographically distinctive and orthographically common words were compared on tests of free recall, fragment completion, perceptual identification, and lexical decision. Orthographic distinctiveness is argued to effect data-driven processing and, in light of recent theory, should ha...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition memory, and cognition, 1990-03, Vol.16 (2), p.282-290
Main Authors: Hunt, R. Reed, Toth, Jeffrey P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Cues
Decision Making
Form and Shape Perception
Form Perception
Free Recall
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Language
Lexical Decision
Memory
Mental Recall
Miscellaneous
Orthography
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Reading
Speech Perception
Visual Perception
Word Recognition
Words (Phonetic Units)
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Summary:The effects of orthographically distinctive and orthographically common words were compared on tests of free recall, fragment completion, perceptual identification, and lexical decision. Orthographic distinctiveness is argued to effect data-driven processing and, in light of recent theory, should have little effect upon free recall but substantial effects upon fragment completion and perceptual identification. The results showed superior recall and fragment completion of orthographically distinctive words but more accurate perceptual identification of orthographically common words. Latency of lexical decision was longer for orthographically distinctive than for orthographically common words. The visual complexity of orthographically distinctive words may require more extensive sensory processing than is possible within the temporal constraints of perceptual identification tests. The effect of orthographic distinctiveness upon free recall reveals a certain inadequacy in the notion of transfer-appropriate processing.
ISSN:0278-7393
1939-1285
DOI:10.1037/0278-7393.16.2.282