The percentage of subjects recalling each unit in a list or prose passage is considered as a dependent measure. When the same units are recalled in different tasks, processing is assumed to be the same; when different units are recalled, processing is assumed to be different. Two collections of memory tasks are presented, one for lists and one for prose. The relations found in these two collect...

this article answers an old controversial question which asks whether poetry is better or prose. this question has been raised since such subjects as grammar, oratory, rhetoric, etc. appeared. no definite resolution has yet been reached. generally speaking authors, critics, and thinkers have divided among themselves into two groups. the first group defends verse or poetry. the second group defe...

thematic, and distorted with the passage of time. That is, at long intervals, there is less recall of passage-specific information and more recall from the subjects' general knowledge of the topic. The present study deals with constructive remembering over time. We attempt to understand prose retention in terms that are compatible with Bartlett's conception of remembering. One problem for a con...

This article examines the production of prose texts in pre-Alfredian England. After reviewing conventional ideas regarding foundational role assigned to Alfred, king Wessex, creation Old English genre, discussion turns a quite considerable number non-poetic which were demonstrably produced at an earlier time, asking whether these can be regarded as prose. Following investigation medieval and mo...

The objective of the current investigation is to replicate the results of a previous study on subgrouping of poor readers. One important aim of the study to be replicated was to develop tools, not only for identifying poor readers, which is a rather straightforward task, but also for examining the pattern of poor reading based on a theoretical analysis of the reading process. Eight distinct sub...

Prior work has suggested that open- and closed-class words elicit negative components in the event-related potential (ERP) that differ in timing and scalp distribution. We tested this hypothesis against the possibility that the word-class effects are attributable to quantitative differences in word length and frequency. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 13 scalp sites whi...