Some prior research has shown a benefit for describing nonverbal study stimuli, particularly faces, on a later recognition test relative to a control (no description) condition. In such studies, participants have known a priori whether a stimulus will need to be described, meaning that encoding differences other than the description could account for the effect. In Experiment 1, a description b...

An extensive body of research generated by the now outmoded dual store model has produced a set of functional principles of single-trial free recall. One principle, termed the ratio rule, describes the properties of the recency effect, while several others based upon laws of rehearsal have been advanced to account for the primacy effect. These principles, which may eventually establish the foun...

A new paradigm was developed to examine prospective memory performance in a visual-spatial task that resembles some aspects of the work of air traffic controllers. Two experiments examined the role of workload (number of aeroplanes that participants directed), delay (between receipt of prospective instructions and execution), and phonological rehearsal. High workload increased prospective memor...

A Distributed Musical Rehearsal is one of the most demanding telepresence applications, in terms of video and audio quality and transmission latency. In the frame of the EU ACTS project Distributed Video Production (DVP) we developed an ATM based environment for the organization of Distributed Musical Rehearsals. In this paper we describe the technical specifications of the installations requir...

A systematic desensitization procedure and 2 of its components were tested for ability to reduce stress responses in a laboratory threat situation. Ss received 1 of 4 types of training procedures before exposure to a stressful film: an analogue of therapeutic desensitization, relaxation, cognitive rehearsal, or no-training control. Stress response during the showing of a dramatic film on indust...

Previous research has shown that mental rehearsal can improve performance. A new study by Vyas et al. (2018) reveals that direct modulation of neural dynamics using a brain-computer interface can also modify physical movements. The study further demonstrates that "mental practice" and physical movements share a common neural subspace.

11 Interference between successively learned tasks is widely investigated to study motor 12 memory. However, how simultaneously-learned motor memories interact with each 13 other has been rarely studied despite its prevalence in daily life. Assuming that motor 14 memory shares common neural mechanisms with declarative memory system, we 15 made unintuitive predictions that mental rehearsal, as o...