Abstractness, imagery, and meaningfulness in paired-associate learning

By Allan Paivio. 1965

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Citations in the corpus

• Visible embodiment: Gestures as simulated action (2008, background): “Second, images provide a means of integrating separate concepts into one connected entity, making imageability particularly important for remembering pairs of items (Paivio, 1963, 1965).”
• Predicting Second Language Writing Proficiency: The Roles of Cohesion and Linguistic Sophistication (2012, methodology): “All of these measures come from the MRC psycholinguistic database (Coltheart, 1981) and are based on the works of Paivio (1965), Toglia and Battig (1978) and Gilhooly and Logie (1980), who used human subjects to rate large collections of words for said psychological properties.”
• A Linguistic Analysis of Simplified and Authentic Texts (2007, methodology): “All these measures are from the MRC (Medical Research Council) Psycholinguistic database (Coltheart, 1981 ) and are based on the works of Gilhooly and Logie (1980), Paivio (1965), and Toglia and Battig (1978).”