title: Pattern goodness and speed of encoding.
abstract: Two experiments attempted to resolve a conflict in the literature about whether good patterns are encoded faster than poor patterns in speeded classification tasks. The results showed clear effects of goodness on the memory component of such tasks, but no effect on speed of encoding. The conflicts appear to be due in part to varying encoding requirements of different tasks.
authors.affiliation: Yale University, 06520, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Pomerantz