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Asher Koriat
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Figural symbolism in Chinese ideographs
Hebrew-speaking subjects were presented with 42 pairs of Chinese characters designating antonymic concepts and were required to match them with their corresponding Hebrew words. Correct translation was signifi...
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Delay of gratification as a function of exchange values and appetitive values of the rewards
This study examined the manner in which the probability of delaying gratification is affected by the exchange values and the appetitive values of the rewards offered. Several delay-of-gratification questions w...
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The symbolic implications of vowels and of their orthographic representations in two natural languages
Ninety-two Hebrew-speaking subjects judged the magnitude, brightness, and hardness symbolism of orthographic characters designating five vowel phonemes in Hindi and in Japanese. For both languages and all thre...
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Another look at the relationship between phonetic symbolism and the feeling of knowing
Koriat (1975), using a word-matching phonetic symbolism task, found a significant relationship between translation accuracy and the degree of subjective confidence associated with the response. This study exam...
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Examination of the letter serial position effect in the “TOT” and the “don’t know” states
Brown and McNeill (1966) found that subjects in the “tip of the tongue” (TOT) state were better able to guess letters in earlier and later positions of an inaccessible word than letters in the mi...
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Phonetic symbolism and feeling of knowing
American subjects matched English antonym pairs with antonym pairs from Thai, Kannada, and Yoruba. For each match they also,indicated their degree of feeling of knowing (FOK). Although translation accuracy was...
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What does a person in a “TOT” state know that a person in a “don’t know” state doesn’t know
The purpose of this study was to examine the significance of Brown and McNeill’s (1966) findings regarding the “tip of the tongue” (TOT) phenomenon, A modified version of their procedure was used with 56 Ss. A...
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What day is today? An inquiry into the process of time orientation
In each of the 6 work days of a 2-week period, approximately equal numbers of passers-by were presented with the question “What day is today?” The experiment took place in Israel, using a total of 273 Ss. Aver...
