Are there long-term literal copies of visually presented words?
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory
- Vol. 2 (6) , 654-662
- https://doi.org/10.1037//0278-7393.2.6.654
Abstract
Tested the strong version of the literal-copy hypothesis which predicts that a virtual image preserving the details of the perceptual experience generated during the reading of a word is stored in memory with perfectly correlated retention for all visual attributes of the stimulus. 96 undergraduates, instructed to retain information about 0, 1, or 2 visual properties of words, were later tested for item and input-case and color retention. Findings did not support the hypothesis, but were consistent with a model which assumes that each visual attribute is stored independently in abstract propositional form. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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