Sentences with phrase «recalling pairs of words»

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Prior to sleep, the students memorized 46 word pairs and, on average, recalled 36.5 of them.

The participants were asked to recall some of the word pairs ten minutes later, then left to sleep overnight while the researchers recorded the electrical activity of their brains.

In a study they found that the subjects, when prompted, could push the second word in a learned word pair out of awareness, which made it harder to recall later.

But when the researchers added a twist — forcing subjects in two of the groups to learn a new set of word pairs 12 minutes prior to testing — the well - rested radically outperformed the sleepy; sleepers recalled 76 percent of the initial pairs compared to just 32 percent for their peers who had gone without shut - eye.

Participants in the Northwestern study who received acoustic stimulation increased their overnight recall of word pairs — a measure of memory — by nearly 27 %.

The participants took a test the next morning to find out the number of word pairs they could recall.

As predicted, when compared with subjects who received the active placebo glycopyrrolate (4 microg / kg) and subjects who were not injected, those who received scopolamine (8 microg / kg) showed (a) overall impairment in new word paired - associate learning, but no impairment in cued recall of previously learned associates; and (b) greater impairment in learning overlapping (A-C) compared with nonoverlapping (D - E) paired associates.

«Red Room (Child)», houses elements associated with Bourgeois's childhood: the red and blue spindles and needles recall the tapestry workshop run by her family, the child's hands resting in those of an adult suggesting a longing for security and a pair of mittens embroidered with the words moi and toi reinforce that desire..