Hypermnesia for prose.
Hypermnesia is an improvement in memory that occurs with repeated testing. In the present experiment, hypermnesia was examined with prose materials. Participants were presented with either a fairy tale or an expository passage, followed by 3 free-recall tests. Participants used 1 of 2 encoding strategies (the relational or item-specific processing conditions) to process the material, or they simply read the material (the read-only condition). Recall performance improved across the 3 tests in the relational and item-specific processing conditions. No improvement was found in the read-only condition.
Life-span Development Research Center, Department of Psychology, Central Michigan University, USA. Hajime.Otani@cmich.edu
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D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008128:Logic; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D012660:Semantics; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology*