Language and Thinking: Positive and Negative Effects of Naming
- 5 July 1963
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 141 (3575) , 48-50
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.141.3575.48
Abstract
Subjects instructed to think of novel shapes in terms of relevant names made fewer errors in recalling a serial ordering of the shapes, but more errors in solving a mental jigsaw puzzle and in drawing the shapes from memory, than subjects instructed to visualize the shapes without using words.Keywords
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