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As other contributions to this volume admirably demonstrate, experimental research on the effects of administering training or instructions to subjects to use mental imagery in learning verbal material has often produced consistent, reliable, and substantial improvements in their retention. It is clearly possible to enhance an individual’s performance in learning and remembering by manipulating the encoding strategies that are employed. This has led to the application of imagery techniques as memory aids for cognitively impaired people, although the success of this application is much more controversial than is the case with normal individuals.
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Richardson, J.T.E., Cermak, L.S., Blackford, S.P., O’Connor, M. (1987). The Efficacy of Imagery Mnemonics Following Brain Damage. In: McDaniel, M.A., Pressley, M. (eds) Imagery and Related Mnemonic Processes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4676-3_14
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