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Investigating the mixture and subdivision of perceptual and conceptual processing in Japanese memory tests.
The dual nature of the Japanese writing system was used to investigate two assumptions of the processing view of memory transfer: (1) that both perceptual and conceptual processing can contribute to the same memory test (mixture assumption) and (2) that both can be broken into more specific processes (subdivision assumption). Supporting the mixture assumption, a word fragment completion test based on ideographic kanji characters (kanji fragment completion test) was affected by both perceptual (hiragana/kanji script shift) and conceptual (levels-of-processing) study manipulations kanji fragments, because it did not occur with the use of meaningless hiragana fragments. The mixture assumption is also supported by an effect of study script on an implicit conceptual test (sentence completion), and the subdivision assumption is supported by a crossover dissociation between hiragana and kanji fragment completion as a function of study script.
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- Writing
- Verbal Learning
- Transfer, Psychology
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- Psychomotor Performance
- Pattern Recognition, Visual
- Mental Recall
- Male
- Language
- Humans
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![Journal cover image](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/lc.gif&issn=1532-5946&client=dukeuniv)
Published In
DOI
EISSN
ISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Related Subject Headings
- Writing
- Verbal Learning
- Transfer, Psychology
- Reading
- Psychomotor Performance
- Pattern Recognition, Visual
- Mental Recall
- Male
- Language
- Humans