An experimental study of vividness in learning and retention.

Buskirk, Wendi L. Van

doi:10.1037/h0074217

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“…This result is consistent with research on the von Restorff effect, in which isolating a single item in the middle of the list by making it surprising or incongruous improves recall for that item (Wallace, 1965). Although most research on the von Restorff effect has manipulated stimulus color (Wallace, 1965), distinctive size has also been shown to produce an effect (e.g., Gumenik & Levitt, 1968;van Buskirk, 1932).…”

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Visual distinctivenesscan enhance recency effects

1995

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Experimental efforts to meliorate the modality effect have included attempts to make the visual stimulus more distinctive. McDowdand Madigan (1991) failed to find an enhanced recency effect in serial recall when the last item was made more distinct in terms of its color. In an attempt to extend this finding, three experiments were conducted in which visual distinctiveness was manipulated in a different manner, by combining the dimensions of physical size and coloration (i.e., whether the stimuli were solid or outlined in relief). Contrary to previous findings, recency was enhanced when the size and coloration of the last item differed from the other items in the list, regardless of whether the "distinctive" item was larger or smaller than the remaining items. The findings are considered in light of other research that has failed to obtain a similar enhanced recency effect, and their implications for current theories of the modality effect are discussed.

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Visual distinctivenesscan enhance recency effects

1995

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“…In fact, worth-while studies might be made of the recall of license numbers according to the Iowa plan of county designations for comparison with the results where no groupings are provided. That the element of complexity may be reduced by graphic aids such as color and size was shown by Van Buskirk's study (47). This experimenter found vivid presentations to have memory persistence for difficult material.…”

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Moore¹

1935

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…The overlap between consciousness and mental imag* is even lower at nine documents. The first publications mentioning "vividness" in the title were both published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 1929 [7] and 1932 [8]. With the exception of five other early works in in the 1940s and 1950s, the concept only starts to become relevant in the late 1960s.…”

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Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis of Vividness and Its Links with Consciousness and Mental Imagery

Haustein

Vellino

2020

Brain Sciences

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We performed a bibliometric analysis of the peer-reviewed literature on vividness between 1900 and 2019 indexed by the Web of Science and compared it with the same analysis of publications on consciousness and mental imagery. While we observed a similarity between the citation growth rates for publications about each of these three subjects, our analysis shows that these concepts rarely overlap (co-occur) in the literature, revealing a surprising paucity of research about these concepts taken together. A disciplinary analysis shows that the field of Psychology dominates the topic of vividness, even though the total number of publications containing that term is small and the concept occurs in several other disciplines such as Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The present findings suggest that without a coherent unitary framework for the use of vividness in research, important opportunities for advancing the field might be missed. In contrast, we suggest that an evidence-based framework (such as the bibliometric analytic methods as exemplified here) will help to guide research from all disciplines that are concerned with vividness and help to resolve the challenge of epistemic incommensurability amongst published research in multidisciplinary fields.

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An experimental study of vividness in learning and retention.

Cited by 19 publications

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Visual distinctivenesscan enhance recency effects

Visual distinctivenesscan enhance recency effects

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Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis of Vividness and Its Links with Consciousness and Mental Imagery

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