Memorial Consequences of Automatized Encoding
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چکیده
The first experiment tracked the acquisition of skilled reading as college students read as many as 160 pages of geometrically inverted text. The logarithm of reading time decreased linearly as a function of the logarithm of amount of practice, and performance on inverted text approached performance on normal text remarkably rapidly. The second experiment assessed the consequence for memory of skill at reading. Students unpracticed at reading inverted text remembered for lengthy intervals the inverted sentences they read; when students acquired skill with the typography, their memory for inverted sentences was poorer. The results are interpreted in terms that emphasize an operational basis to memory—pattern-analyzing procedures rather than conscious contents. This view is contrasted with three other accounts of recognition.
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