From chair to "chair": A representational shift account of object labeling effects on memory.

From chair to "chair": a representational shift account of object labeling effects on memory.

What are the consequences of calling things by their names? Six experiments investigated how classifying familiar objects with basic-level names (chairs, tables, and lamps) affected recognition memory. Memory was found to be worse for items that were overtly classified with the category name--as reflected by lower hit rates--compared with items that were not overtly classified. This effect of l...

From a Real Chair to a Negative Chair

Memory Issues Chair

It is well known that the use of cache memory significantly improves the performance of a computing system. There exists a large quantity of technical literature dealing with analysis and design of cache-based systems. One of the most recent trends in computer technology is to implement multilevel caches. Today, most new processors implement an on-chip dual cache; one for instructions and one f...

Rising from a chair. Influence of age and chair design.

We studied the effect of age on the act of rising from a standard armchair in a younger (means = 24 years) and an older (means = 75 years) group of healthy adult women. Rising from a standard armchair and an armchair specially designed for comfort in sitting of the elderly was studied in the older group to determine the influence of the special chair. We used electrogoniometry, EMG, and videota...

Chair design affects how older adults rise from a chair.

OBJECTIVE To determine how modifications of key chair design aspects, such as seat height, posterior seat tilt, backrest recline, seat compressibility, and armrest placement, affect how older adults rise from a chair and the seating comfort they experience. DESIGN Cross-sectional comparison. SETTING Congregate housing facility and university laboratory. SUBJECTS Two groups of volunteers, ...