@article{ref1,
title="A syntactic complexity effect with visual patterns: evidence for the syntactic nature of the memory representation",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition",
year="1996",
author="Chechile, R. A. and Anderson, J. E. and Krafczek, S. A. and Coley, S. L.",
volume="22",
number="3",
pages="654-669",
abstract="In a series of 3 experiments, participants learned visual patterns that contained the same number of visual features but varied in the complexity of the interrelations among the features. The results indicate a large and orderly effect of the pattern's syntactic complexity on recognition speed. Evidence is provided that this effect was not due to physical characteristics, target-foil similarity, speed-accuracy trade-off, or level of pattern learning. A multiple-encoding explanation of the effect is described. According to this framework, there is an initial, automatically generated encoding of the pattern as a short-term pictorial representation that becomes the basis for the construction of a second syntactic-propositional encoding. In this model, the participant's &quot;sense of familiarity&quot; for a particular stimulus is associated only with the syntactic-propositional encoding.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0278-7393",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}