The results indicated that cuing key material led readers to recall more of that key material. One involved obtaining judgements of the key sentences in a 3,400-word text, and demonstrated the inconsistency of the judges the second examined the effects of typographic cuing using a delayed free-recall test.
The experimental literature on cuing, particularly in continuous prose, is surveyed. Visual cues are frequently employed where the reader has to detect or discriminate target items, such as in maps or bibliographies, but are less frequently used in material read for comprehension. “Visual cues” are variations in the appearance of a graphic display which are intended to assist the reader in using the display more efficiently.
