Web Resources

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Instructions for the Mental Rotation Experiment
An interactive demonstration of the mental rotation task.

Imagery: Imagery Value vs. Meaningfulness
Click on “Recent Demonstrations” and scroll down the page to “Imagery: Imagery value vs. meaningfulness” for an interactive demonstration of Paivio, Smith, and Yuille’s (1968) study on memory recall for words based on meaningfulness vs. the imagery value of the words.

Latent Semantic Analysis
An interactive demonstration of latent semantic analysis.

Prototypes
An interactive demonstration of Posner and Keele’s (1968) classic study on prototypes.

Link Word
An interactive demonstration of the link word mnemonic that uses visual imagery to enhance memory.