How Visual and Semantic Information Influence Learning in Familiar Contexts.
Previous research using the contextual cuing paradigm has revealed both quantitative and qualitative differences in learning depending on whether repeated contexts are defined by letter arrays or real-world scenes. To clarify the relative contributions of visual features and semantic information lik...
| Published in: | Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception & Performance Vol. 38; no. 5; pp. 1315 - 1328 |
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American Psychological Association
Oct2012
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