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| Alice F HealySummaryAffiliation: University of Colorado Country: USA Publications
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Learning and memory for sequences of pictures, words, and spatial locations: an exploration of serial position effectsWilliam J Bonk
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Am J Psychol 123:137-68. 2010....- Terrorism after 9/11: reactions to simulated news reportsAlice F Healy
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Am J Psychol 122:153-65. 2009..Participants lower in masculinity showed more fear and less anger than did those higher in masculinity. This study shows that terrorist attacks produce more than simple terror... - Familiarization effects for bilingual letter detection involving translation or exact text repetitionHolly Krech Thomas
University of Colorado, CO 80309 0345, USA
Can J Exp Psychol 61:304-15. 2007..These results are consistent with the GO model of reading (Greenberg, Healy, Koriat, & Kreiner, 2004) but require an expanded consideration of attention redistribution processes in that model... - The Stroop effect in English-Japanese bilinguals: the effect of phonological similarityHiromi Sumiya
University of Colorado at Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Exp Psychol 55:93-101. 2008..These results suggest that unintentional lexical access elicits automatic phonological processing even with intermediate-level reading proficiency... - Encoding and output order processes in short-term order recall of distinctive itemsAlice F Healy
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0345, USA
Memory 10:29-43. 2002..e., missing) letter depressed recall. Constraining output order eliminated the disadvantage for the absent letter. The results are discussed in terms of encoding and output order processes in short-term recall of order information... - Pushing the limits of imagination: mental practice for learning sequencesErica L Wohldmann
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 33:254-61. 2007..The findings suggest that imagery can be used to acquire and retain representations of sequences and to improve general typing skill... - Using prior knowledge to minimize interference when learning large amounts of informationJames A Kole
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309 0345, USA
Mem Cognit 35:124-37. 2007..These results are consistent with the mental model account of long-term memory... 
Contextual memory and skill transfer in category searchJames A Kole
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 0345, USA
Mem Cognit 38:67-82. 2010..These results demonstrate that transfer is facilitated by overlap in training and testing contexts...- Strategy selection and use during classification skill acquisitionLyle E Bourne
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 36:500-14. 2010.... - How changing the focus of attention affects performance, kinematics, and electromyography in dart throwingKeith R Lohse
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Hum Mov Sci 29:542-55. 2010..These results suggest improved movement economy with an external focus of attention... - Memory for details about people: familiarity, relatedness, and gender congruencyJames A Kole
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Mem Cognit 39:637-48. 2011.... - Neuromuscular effects of shifting the focus of attention in a simple force production taskKeith R Lohse
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
J Mot Behav 43:173-84. 2011..Posttest surveys revealed subjects were aware of their improved performance with an external focus... - Intention to respond in a special way offers some protection against forgetting associationsLyle E Bourne
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Am J Psychol 124:23-36. 2011..These results imply that the requirement to respond in a special way protects associations from loss due to forgetting... - Strategy shifts in classification skill acquisition: does memory retrieval dominate rule use?Lyle E Bourne
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Mem Cognit 34:903-13. 2006..Strategy use over trials and the retention interval reflected a given task's affordance of a shift between rule- and memory-based processes... - Specificity effects in training and transfer of speeded responsesAlice F Healy
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 80309 0345, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 32:534-46. 2006..These results illustrate severe specificity of training and are interpreted in terms of acquired inhibition of normal responses... - Skill training, retention, and transfer: the effects of a concurrent secondary taskAlice F Healy
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, 345 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Mem Cognit 33:1457-71. 2005..More generally, this study challenges the current practice in which training conditions often do not match eventual testing conditions... - Memory seeding: representations underlying quantitative estimationsNadezhda N LaVoie
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 80309 0345, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 28:1137-53. 2002..Retention over long intervals was facilitated by both presenting 3 seed countries as opposed to 1 and providing names for the seed countries... - What "mice trap" tells us about the mental lexiconCarolyn J Buck-Gengler
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 80309 0345, USA
Brain Lang 90:453-64. 2004..Plural responses were also slower when cue and required response number differed... - Effects of prolonged work on data entry speed and accuracyAlice F Healy
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 80309 0345, USA
J Exp Psychol Appl 10:188-99. 2004..Thus, through a combination of facilitation and inhibition, prolonged work affects the component cognitive and motoric processes of data entry differentially and at different points in practice... - Reading units that include interword spaces: filling spaces around a letter can facilitate letter detectionAlice F Healy
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 0345, USA
Mem Cognit 32:560-9. 2004..It is concluded that for very common words, reading units may extend beyond the word boundary to include the surrounding interword spaces... - Conserving time in the classroom: the clicker techniqueLindsay S Anderson
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 64:1457-62. 2011..Results suggest that the clicker technique is an efficient and cost-effective method of conserving instructional time without loss of amount learned... - Effects of instruction modality and readback on accuracy in following navigation commandsVivian I Schneider
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 0345, USA
J Exp Psychol Appl 10:245-57. 2004..An advantage for reduced over full repetition for visual but not for auditory presentation was attributed to an enhanced visual scanning process... - A blank look in reading: the effect of blank space on the identification of letters and words during readingJames P Van Overschelde
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Exp Psychol 52:213-23. 2005..The latter finding supports the conclusion that information from surrounding lines of single-spaced text may interfere with reading... - Trade-offs in detecting letters and comprehending textWilliam L Oliver
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309 0345, USA
Can J Exp Psychol 59:159-67. 2005..Thus, the procedures developed in this study permit examination of the component processes contributing to performance in the letter detection task... - Zero anaphora: transfer of reference tracking strategies from Chinese to EnglishLiang Tao
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
J Psycholinguist Res 34:99-131. 2005..These results imply that native Chinese speakers develop reference tracking strategies that they transfer to comprehending English... - Global inhibition and midcourse corrections in speeded aimingErica L Wohldmann
Department of Psychology, California State University, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330 8255, USA
Mem Cognit 36:1228-35. 2008..Training on a subset of locations yielded partial transfer to untrained locations. These results support a global inhibition hypothesis modified to include both midcourse corrective movements and training specificity... - Short-term recall of order information: influence of encoding and generation processes on distinctiveness, isolation, and background effectsThomas F Cunningham
Department of Psychology, St Lawrence University, Canton, New York 13617, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 12:519-23. 2005..These effects can be explained in terms of the extra processing given to distinctive items when they need to be generated... - The GO model: a reconsideration of the role of structural units in guiding and organizing text on lineSeth N Greenberg
Department of Psychology, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 11:428-33. 2004..This model specifies how structural processing of connected text helps guide eye movements to semantically informative parts of the text, enabling readers to achieve on-line fluency... - The effects of mental representation on performance in a navigation taskImmanuel Barshi
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Mem Cognit 30:1189-203. 2002.... - Phonology in the bilingual Stroop effectHiromi Sumiya
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0345, USA
Mem Cognit 32:752-8. 2004.... - A mental practice superiority effect: less retroactive interference and more transfer than physical practiceErica L Wohldmann
Department of Psychology, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 34:823-33. 2008..Mental practice led to less retroactive interference and more transfer than did physical practice, supporting the hypothesis that mental practice strengthens an abstract representation that does not involve specific effectors...