Lexical Information in Memory for Text.

Barbara Hayes-Roth

Expert InsightsPublished 1977

Cued-recall and two-alternative, forced-choice recognition measures were used to evaluate subjects' retention of the specific wordings of studied texts. Results obtained after ten-minute and twenty-four hour retention intervals suggest that the studied wordings of texts are functional components of their memory representations. Theories that assume automatic lexical decomposition during text comprehension cannot account for these results. However, the results are consistent with either associative network theories in which word-senses are the basic units of representation or theories that assume both lexical decomposition and the retention of specific lexical information. 21 pp. Ref.

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Hayes-Roth, Barbara, Lexical Information in Memory for Text. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1977. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P5832.html.
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