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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"context variability"”.
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How does context variability affect representational pattern similarity to support subsequent item memory?
… prior behavioral studies indicate that cognitive variability across repetitions of an event benefits later memory retrieval, which is difficult to reconcile with the common finding that voxel pattern variability across repetitions of an event harms later memory. We tested this hypothesis by …
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Learning the meaning of new words: Behavioural and neuroimaging evidence
… Experiments 1-2 investigated effects of context variability (number of different contexts) and semantic richness (number and type of semantic features) on word learning in a second language. Experiment 1 suggested that context variability benefits word naming and semantic decision. …
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The Deer Island Site (22HR500): Prehistoric Ceramics and Their Meaning on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
… wares at the site could indicate a ceremonial context, variability of vessel types and sizes suggest that various-sized re~idential groups in extended site occupations appear more likely than short-term feasting episodes by large groups. Trade and the influx of ideas shown by the expression of …
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Is variability appropriate? Encoding Variability and Transfer-Appropriate Processing
… the processing described by TAP determines the contextual cues that are encoded with an event. At retrieval, the presence or absence of contextual cues matching the encoding cues will influence success. To implement these principles as a strategy to improve memory, the nature of future retrieval …