Jocelyn Penny Small (1993) Visual Display of Text Affects Visual Display of Recall:
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Psycoloquy 4(20): Visual Display of Text Affects Visual Display of Recall:
VISUAL DISPLAY OF TEXT AFFECTS VISUAL DISPLAY OF RECALL:
EVIDENCE FROM ANTIQUITY
Commentary on Hartley on Small on Skoyles on Reading
Jocelyn Penny Small
U.S. Center
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae
Alexander Library
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
JPSMALL@ZODIAC.RUTGERS.EDU
Abstract
Small (1992) mentions a side-effect of dividind text
displays into visual chunks. I provide indirect corroboration from
techniques of memorizing texts in Classical Antiquity and the
Middle Ages, according to which it is easier to recall text by
remembering the way it appeared in the "original" than by
memorizing it as an isolated string.
Keywords
dyslexia, connectionism, development, error correction,
reading.
References
- Baddeley, Alan. (1990) Human Memory. Theory and Practice Allyn and Bacon: (Boston, etc.)
- Carruthers, Mary. (1990) The Book of Memory Cambridge University Press: (Cambridge).
- Hartley, James. (1992) The Visual Chunking of Text. PSYCOLOQUY 3(66) reading.11
- Neisser, Ulric. (1988) Time Present and Time Past in M. M. Gruneberg, P. E. Morris, and R. N. Sykes, editors, Practical Aspects of Memory John Wiley & Sons: (Chichester, etc.) 545-560.
- Small, J. P. (1992) Historical Development of Writing and Reading. PSYCOLOQUY 3(61) reading.10