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ERIC Number: EJ511091
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0361-476X
Mental Representations of Maps and Verbal Descriptions: Evidence They May Affect Text Memory Differently.
Stock, William A.; And Others
Contemporary Educational Psychology, v20 n3 p237-56 Jul 1995
Two studies involving 177 undergraduates examined the effects that mental representations derived from maps and verbal descriptions have on the recall of facts from a text. Findings suggest that there may be fundamental differences between visual and verbal representations of the same space. (SLD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Higher Education, Maps, Memory, Recall (Psychology), Undergraduate Students, Verbal Communication, Visual Stimuli
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Mental Representation