This paper describes an experiment comparing the effect of two different approaches to information presentation on item recall. The results show that using discourse cues facilitates recalling the presented information.

OBJECTIVE Assess the amount of medical information laypeople recall, investigate the impact of structured presentation on recall. METHODS 105 first-year psychology students (mean age 21.5±3.8 years; 85% female) were randomised to two information-presentation conditions: structured (S group) and nonstructured (NS group). Students watched a video of a physician discharging a patient from the em...

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Cognitive theories of depression emphasise a vicious circle linking depressed mood and biased recall towards negative information. In line with this, depressed adults show selectively enhanced recall for negative information. This recall bias is held to be mediated by increased accessibility of negative self-referent schemas formed as a result of adverse early experiences. Given this, surprisin...

Th geme Reso grate ment Dori anon versi Ad Rum P.O. r.rum tual and lexical information. In two experiments, we show that phonological information also contributes to short-term sentence recall. Modality of sentence presentation was varied, and a word list was presented before or after sentence presentation. It was assumed that phonological information contributes to the recall of auditorily pre...

Recall, High Precision Kevin Cheong Language Technology Group, Microsoft Research Institute School of MPCE, Macquarie University Sydney NSW 2109, Australia [email protected] Abstract Conference announcements are distributed widely each day via electronic mail to the research and industrial community. These conferences inform researchers, academics and the industry about the research and dev...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the ability of patients to recall information provided during a preoperative visit. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Sixty patients scheduled for elective surgery under general anaesthesia or central neuro-axial block. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Satisfactory recall of preoperative information, defined as the ability to remember at...