Grapho-motor memory is stronger than visual-motor memory: 85.3 per cent of high school subjects showed greater grapho-motor recall, replicating Meyerhardt's college and university findings¶

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q2 i? Of 34 usable high school subjects, the results from 29 (85.3 per cent) showed greater grapho-motor than visual-motor memory, while five subjects showed little difference between the two capacities. → Patterson 1909

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Patterson 1909¶

Patterson, T. L. (1909). Pedagogical Suggestions from Memory Tests. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://books.google.com

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About 50 tests at Anson Academy in 1909, aged thirteen to nineteen, used Meyerhardt's method with figures written by odd-numbered subjects and looked at by even-numbered subjects, recalled after 40 seconds. Results of 16 subjects were discarded for misunderstanding directions; the remaining 34 "harmonized with those of Meyerhardt."

"The results from 29 subjects or 85.3 per cent, showed this increase in grapho-motor memory over the visual-motor memory, while the results from the other five subjects showed little difference in their grapho-motor and visual-motor memory capacities."

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