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The present study shows that previous attempts to demonstrate explicit memory for orientation of spatially transformed text were inconclusive. In the present experiments, subjects read spatially transformed sentences and were then given a recognition test that permitted the use of only nonsemantic information. The results revealed clear evidence of incidental retention of nonsemantic information on an immediate test, no improvement in performance under intentional learning conditions, reduced but still better than chance retention following a 48-h delay, and little change in performance with anomalous sentences. These and other results involving the reading of spatially transformed materials are discussed in terms of the interaction of processing requirements at encoding and retrieval.
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This research was supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Grant A7454 to the author.
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Horton, K.D. The processing of spatially transformed text. Memory & Cognition 17, 283–291 (1989). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198466
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