Hiroyuki SHIMADA’s research while affiliated with Kobe University and other places

... Previous studies have provided evidence for the development of chunks in action sequences after extended practice in telegraphic encoding and decoding (Bryan & Harter, 1899) and novel keying sequences (Verwey, 1996). More recent studies demonstrated the development of chunks in skilled typewriting at the level of keystrokes (Ashitaka & Shimada, 2014;MEMORY CHUNKING IN TYPEWRITING Yamaguchi & Logan, 2014a). The present study focused specifically on memory chunks in skilled typewriting. ...

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Pushing Typists Back on the Learning Curve: Memory Chunking in the Hierarchical Control of Skilled Typewriting

... Between 1.2 and 1.6 million students annually enroll in Intro Psych, as it is commonly called . Intro Psych is well researched both in North America (e.g., Weiten & Houska, 2015) and abroad (e.g., Ashitaka & Shimada, 2014). However, many questions and issues remain. ...

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Ramp It Up: A Call for More Research in Introductory Psychology

... Indeed, in light of some experimental data, the concepts of declarative and procedural memory appear to have more subtle boundaries in some cases. In two recent studies, explicit and implicit memory of the position of letters on the QWERTY keyboard as well as the mechanisms involved were investigated (Snyder et al., 2014;Ianì et al., 2024). Explicit memory for the position of the letters was impaired when participants were engaged in a secondary task requiring hands/arms movements. ...

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Reification and Cognitive Science