Chunking in tonal contexts: Information compression during serial recall of visually presented musical notes

the impact of musical texts on the text recall of young learners of english in isfahan junior high schools

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

Speed of Processing Phonological Information Presented Visually and Speechreading Proficiency

An experiment was designed to investigate whether the speed of processing phonological information presented visually is related to speechreading proficiency even after the proportion of the variance associated with an analytical consonantal viseme recognition task was taken into consideration. Young adults (n = 48) with normal hearing and vision completed 4 different visual-speech perception t...

Global consequences of local complexity: evidence from recall of visually presented nonwords

There is extensive evidence that structural regularities affect the processing of visually-presented words. However, it is not known whether the processing consequences of an orthographic violation are limited to the offending subpart (e.g., an unattested onset cluster) or apply more globally (e.g., to the entire word). We provide evidence of global disruption from the recall of briefly-present...

Effects of temporal chunking on speech recall

It is established that temporal grouping or “chunking” arises in serial recall as it does in speech. For instance, chunking appears in common tasks like remembering series such as phone numbers. In the present study, we examine how detected chunks in meaningless strings of syllables and meaningful utterances influence memory. We use a Sternberg task where listeners identify whether a heard item...

On Interfering with Item versus Order Information in Serial Recall