Storage aspects of nouns presented under imagery and acoustic coding instructions.

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Tested the effects of imagery and acoustic coding instructions on the storage dimensions of nouns with object referents and on the discriminability of the resultant memory traces. 80 words were presented to 72 undergraduates under different coding instructions followed by a recognition memory task where the words were paired with distractors, each pair having similar images, similar sounds, or no similarities. Instructions to use imagery increased the number of word pairs correctly discriminated and decreased errors for all distractor types. There was no significant interaction between the type of instructions and the type of distractor. Results show that instructions to use imagery increased the discriminability of memory traces for nouns with object referents. There was no evidence for a qualitative change in storage dimensions with instructions to concentrate on either an image or a sound component of nouns with object referents. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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