Research on long term biological isolation of primates and mice, volume 1 Final report, 7 Jan. 1969 - 7 Jan. 1970

Long term effects of biological isolation on monkeys and mice with application to prolonged space fligh

Research on long term biological isolation of primates and mice. Volume 4 - The literature search, appendix M Final report

Literature search for effects of intestinal microflora on host organism

Effects of strategy on visual working memory capacity

Substantial evidence suggests that individual differences in estimates of working memory capacity reflect differences in how effectively people use their intrinsic storage capacity. This suggests that estimated capacity could be increased by instructions that encourage more effective encoding strategies. The present study tested this by giving different participants explicit strategy instructions in a change detection task. Compared to a condition in which participants were simply told to do their best, we found that estimated capacity was increased for participants who were instructed to remember the entire visual display, even at set sizes beyond their capacity. However, no increase in estimated capacity was found for a group that was told to focus on a subset of the items in supracapacity arrays. This finding confirms the hypothesis that encoding strategies may influence visual working memory performance, and it is contrary to the hypothesis that the optimal strategy is to filter out any items beyond the storage capacity