Alan Beaton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Beaton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Beaton |
| SIGNATURE | BEATON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Handedness and dream-recall frequency
The ability to recall a dream upon waking up in the morning has been linked to a broad variety of factors such as personality, creativity, sleep behavior, and cognitive function. As dreaming has been associated with the right hemisphere, it has been proposed that left-handed persons would have easier access to their dreams. However, previous empirical data support an association of dream-recall frequency with right-handedness. In the present samp…
Dyslexia, reading, and the brain: A Sourcebook of Psychological and Biological Research
Lateral Asymmetries and Interhemispheric Transfer in Aging: A Review and Some New Data
Retention of foreign vocabulary learned using the keyword method: A ten-year follow-up
This article assesses one individual's level of recall for foreign vocabulary learned ten years previously using the keyword method. Without any revision at all, he remembered 35% of the test words with spelling fully correct and over 50% with only very minor errors of spelling. After 10 minutes spent looking at a vocabulary list, recall increased to 65% and 76% respectively. After a period of revision lasting a further 11⁄2 hours, recall was vir…
Psycholinguistic Determinants of Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning
This paper reviews the psycholinguistic factors that affect ease of learning of foreign language (FL) vocabulary and investigates their role in 47 students' learning of German under Repetition, Keyword or "Own" strategy conditions. Native-to-foreign learning is shown to be easier the more the FL words conform to the phonological (0.40
Hand preference scores and completion of questionnaires: Another look
French & Richards (1990) drew attention to the unexpectedly high anxiety scores reported in Beaton & Moseley's (1984) study of anxiety in relation to handedness. The data of that study are reanalysed and the correct scores are shown to be comparable to those of French & Richards (1990). The reanalysis confirms the conclusion of Beaton & Moseley (1984) that handedness and anxiety are not related. Further analyses of the pattern of responding to qu…
Left Side, Right Side: A Review of Laterality Research
Anxiety and the measurement of handedness
University students completed Annett's (1970) Handedness Inventory ( n = 254) and the Trait Scale of the Spielberger Anxiety Questionnaire (n = 247). No relationship was found between anxiety and the hand preference classes distinguished by Annett (1970). Discrepancies between these findings and others reported in the literature are attributed to methodological factors concerning the measurement of handedness
Information extraction from brief verbal displays: Half‐field and serial position effects for children, normal and illiterate adults
Adults learning to read for the first time and two groups of control subjects (matched for reading age or chronological age) were tachistoscopically presented with three types of vertically oriented letter string in the left or right visual field. Contrary to predictions that age or deprivation from textual experience would affect differential hemispheric processing, there were no significant differences between the three groups in the size or di…
Psycholinguistic Determinants of Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning
This paper reviews the psycholinguistic factors that affect ease of learning of foreign language (FL) vocabulary and investigates their role in 47 students' learning of German under Repetition, Keyword or "Own" strategy conditions. Native-to-foreign learning is shown to be easier the more the FL words conform to the phonological (0.40
Retention of foreign vocabulary learned using the keyword method: A ten-year follow-up
This article assesses one individual's level of recall for foreign vocabulary learned ten years previously using the keyword method. Without any revision at all, he remembered 35% of the test words with spelling fully correct and over 50% with only very minor errors of spelling. After 10 minutes spent looking at a vocabulary list, recall increased to 65% and 76% respectively. After a period of revision lasting a further 11⁄2 hours, recall was vir…
Information extraction from brief verbal displays: Half‐field and serial position effects for children, normal and illiterate adults
Adults learning to read for the first time and two groups of control subjects (matched for reading age or chronological age) were tachistoscopically presented with three types of vertically oriented letter string in the left or right visual field. Contrary to predictions that age or deprivation from textual experience would affect differential hemispheric processing, there were no significant differences between the three groups in the size or di…
Anxiety and the measurement of handedness
University students completed Annett's (1970) Handedness Inventory ( n = 254) and the Trait Scale of the Spielberger Anxiety Questionnaire (n = 247). No relationship was found between anxiety and the hand preference classes distinguished by Annett (1970). Discrepancies between these findings and others reported in the literature are attributed to methodological factors concerning the measurement of handedness
Left Side, Right Side: A Review of Laterality Research
Hand preference scores and completion of questionnaires: Another look
French & Richards (1990) drew attention to the unexpectedly high anxiety scores reported in Beaton & Moseley's (1984) study of anxiety in relation to handedness. The data of that study are reanalysed and the correct scores are shown to be comparable to those of French & Richards (1990). The reanalysis confirms the conclusion of Beaton & Moseley (1984) that handedness and anxiety are not related. Further analyses of the pattern of responding to qu…
Psycholinguistic Determinants of Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning
This paper reviews the psycholinguistic factors that affect ease of learning of foreign language (FL) vocabulary and investigates their role in 47 students' learning of German under Repetition, Keyword or "Own" strategy conditions. Native-to-foreign learning is shown to be easier the more the FL words conform to the phonological (0.40
Retention of foreign vocabulary learned using the keyword method: A ten-year follow-up
This article assesses one individual's level of recall for foreign vocabulary learned ten years previously using the keyword method. Without any revision at all, he remembered 35% of the test words with spelling fully correct and over 50% with only very minor errors of spelling. After 10 minutes spent looking at a vocabulary list, recall increased to 65% and 76% respectively. After a period of revision lasting a further 11⁄2 hours, recall was vir…
Lateral Asymmetries and Interhemispheric Transfer in Aging: A Review and Some New Data
Dyslexia, reading, and the brain: A Sourcebook of Psychological and Biological Research
Handedness and dream-recall frequency
The ability to recall a dream upon waking up in the morning has been linked to a broad variety of factors such as personality, creativity, sleep behavior, and cognitive function. As dreaming has been associated with the right hemisphere, it has been proposed that left-handed persons would have easier access to their dreams. However, previous empirical data support an association of dream-recall frequency with right-handedness. In the present samp…
Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Audiology (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works)