Text recall and text recognition with and without a title
- 1 November 1996
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Japanese Psychological Research
- Vol. 38 (4) , 240-244
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5884.1996.tb00029.x
Abstract
Recall and recognition memory for a text were investigated in two conditions: in one, subjects could understand the text well because they were presented with the title of the text prior to reading it; in the other, they could not understand the text so well because they were not presented with the title. Results showed that recall was better and sentence recognition more accurate when subjects had understood the text. A 1‐h delay of the memory test after reading decreased recall performance, but not recognition performance. Different memory representations may have been operating when subjects had understood the text from when they had not.Keywords
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