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Memory and learning for a novel written style.
(Mem Cognit, 1998-07)
Subjects read and recalled a series of five short stories in one of four plot and
style combinations. The stories were written in one of two styles that consisted of
opposing clause orders (i.e., independent-dependent vs. ...
Diminishment of respiratory sinus arrhythmia foreshadows doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy.
(Circulation, 1991-08)
BACKGROUND: The development of a microcomputer-based device permits quick, simple,
and noninvasive quantification of the respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) during quiet
breathing. METHODS AND RESULTS: We prospectively and ...
Music, emotion, and autobiographical memory: they're playing your song.
(Mem Cognit, 1999-11)
Very long-term memory for popular music was investigated. Older and younger adults
listened to 20-sec excerpts of popular songs drawn from across the 20th century. The
subjects gave emotionality and preference ratings and ...
Things learned in early adulthood are remembered best.
(Mem Cognit, 1998-01)
Evidence is reviewed that for older adults the period from 10 to 30 years of age produces
recall of the most autobiographical memories, the most vivid memories, and the most
important memories. It is the period from which ...
Memorabeatlia: a naturalistic study of long-term memory.
(Mem Cognit, 1990-03)
Seventy-six undergraduates were given the titles and first lines of Beatles' songs
and asked to recall the songs. Seven hundred and four different undergraduates were
cued with one line from each of 25 Beatles' songs and ...
Properties of word cues for autobiographical memory.
(Psychol Rep, 1997-08)
A sample of 124 words were used to cue autobiographical memories in 120 adults varying
in age from 20 to 73 years. Individual words reliably cued autobiographical memories
of different ages with different speeds. For all ...
Distribution of important and word-cued autobiographical memories in 20-, 35-, and 70-year-old adults.
(Psychol Aging, 1997-09)
For word-cued autobiographical memories, older adults had an increase, or bump, from
the ages 10 to 30. All age groups had fewer memories from childhood than from other
years and a power-function retention for memories from ...
Continuous intravenous cimetidine decreases stress-related upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage without promoting pneumonia.
(Crit Care Med, 1993-01)
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether a continuous i.v. infusion of cimetidine, a histamine-2
(H2) receptor antagonist, is needed to prevent upper gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage
when compared with placebo and if that usage ...
The abstraction of form in semantic categories.
(Mem Cognit, 1991-01)
Undergraduates were asked to generate a name for a hypothetical new exemplar of a
category. They produced names that had the same numbers of syllables, the same endings,
and the same types of word stems as existing exemplars ...
The distribution of autobiographical memories across the lifespan.
(Mem Cognit, 1997-11)
Words were used to cue autobiographical memories from 20- and 70-year-old subjects.
Both groups showed a decrease in memories from the childhood years and a power-function
retention function for their most recent 10 years. ...