Pattern-analyzing memory.
College students reread text after an interval of 13 to 15 months more rapidly than they read new matter taken from the same sources. The results implicate a memory system at the level of pattern analysis that seems to be distinguishable from memory of syntactic and semantic features of text.
D000328:Adult; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D011932:Reading; D013997:Time Factors