Some Correlates of Rated Memorability of Sentences

This study examines the effect of instruction to generate memorable as opposed to grammatical sentences from letter strings of varying lengths. Results indicate that the effect of instruction is limited, but where it proves effective higher rated Memorability is associated with higher rated Sentence Simplicity and Positive Affect. Correlations between the characteristics examined in the study and Memorability fail to reveal any relationship between rated Bizarreness and Memorability, but correlations are found between rated Memorability and rated Imageability, Meaningfulness and Sentence Simplicity, characteristics found by independent research to be related to Memorability. Other interesting correlations between characteristics examined in the study are also discussed

Affect (linguistics) · Cognitive psychology · Natural language processing · Sentence · Simplicity · Communication · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes