The imagery bizarreness effect as a function of sentence complexity and presentation time

To determine if the failure to find the bizarreness effect (more words recalled from bizarre images than from common images) for complex sentences was due to insufficient presentation time of the sentences, two experiments were conducted. College students (N = 128) were randomly assigned to six groups. Common & bizarre sentences were viewed at time intervals, rated for clarity, & later recalled. The results in experiment 1 showed that time did not influence the bizarreness effect when simple sentences were used, but that in complex sentences, nouns were better recalled with a longer presentation time. The result that more time is needed to process bizarre sentences than common ones was replicated in experiment 2, & should be considered an important variable in reviewing bizarreness literature. 2 Tables, 5 References. Adapted from the source document