Originally designed by Herbert A . Simon and Edward Feigenbaum to simulate phenomena in verbal learning, it has been later adapted to account for data on the psychology of expertise and concept formation.
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Methylenedioxymethamphetamine ( MDMA ) users are found to exhibit difficulties encoding information into long-term memory, display impaired verbal learning, are more easily distracted, and are less efficient at focusing attention on complex tasks.
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One study decided to try to determine if polysubstance users who also abused alcohol would display poorer performance on a verbal learning and memory test in comparison to those who abused alcohol specifically.
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Despite this, xanomeline has been shown to have reasonable efficacy for the treatment of schizophrenia symptoms, and one recent human study found robust improvements in verbal learning and short-term memory associated with xanomeline treatment.
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The first empirical research on the tip of the tongue phenomenon was undertaken by Harvard researchers Roger Brown and David McNeill and published in 1966 in the Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior.
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A big feature, compared to other verbal learning tests, is that the words are drawn from four semantic categories ( tools, fruits, clothing, spices and herbs ), with no consecutive words from the same category.
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No new areas for the arithmetic task may suggest that it relies heavily on working memory so compensation is not possible, in comparison to tasks such as verbal learning which rely less on working memory.
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Local shape deformations of the medial surface of the caudate have been correlated with verbal learning capacity for females and the number of perseverance errors on spatial and verbal fluency working memory tasks for males.
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Taft, Marcus and Kenneth I . Forster . " Lexical Storage and Retrieval of Polymorphemic and Polysyllabic Words . " Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 15.6 ( 1976 ) : 607-620.27 Apr . 2014.
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Cerebral activation during performance on three cognitive tasks ( verbal learning, arithmetic, and divided attention ) were compared after both normal sleep and 35 hours of total sleep deprivation ( TSD ) in a study by Drummond and Brown.
