Pai- vios (1971, 1975, 1978) dual-coding theory influenced this work and much of our later thinking with. We have also added a New game mode Without Countdown, by choosing this mode you can play quietly at your own pace.Īll these memory games are compatible with all your devices: computer, tablets and smartphones (Iphone or Android). Spring Memory is a fun memory game and matching activity for your students Variations include matching pictures to pictures, pictures to words, or both pictures and words to each other. showed better memory for pictures than for words. Second, the study examined whether word frequency affects recogni- tion under repetition and context.

So you can choose the level according to your recall ability, and gradually increase the difficulty according to your progress. First, it examined memory for words rather than pictures. You now have the possibility to choose the level of difficulty that suits you best thanks to the buttons below the game. New in 2021: a New Version of these games is now available. The common feature of all these memory games is that you have to memorize and remember the words. In other games, you will have to memorize the locations of the words in order to find the pairs of identical words. Recognition memory tests dating back to the 1950s found that people are able to correctly identify 98 of images they've seen before, compared with just 88 of sentences and 90 of words. There are several types of games, some are timed, so the words are displayed for a limited time and you have to memorize them before the countdown is over. Yet decades' worth of scientific research consistently demonstrates that people are much better at remembering pictures than words. But if memory experts can write a dictionary of abstract word-pictures then we could use it as a handy reference to picture a word.

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