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Science 5 July 1963:
Vol. 141. no. 3575, pp. 48 - 50
DOI: 10.1126/science.141.3575.48
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Language and Thinking: Positive and Negative Effects of Naming

Howard B. Ranken 1

1 Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Subjects instructed to think of novel shapes in terms of relevant names made fewer errors in recalling a serial ordering of the shapes, but more errors in solving a mental jigsaw puzzle and in drawing the shapes from memory, than subjects instructed to visualize the shapes without using words.


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