It was demonstrated that the poems of 5 unidentified contemporary poets could be successfully identified after a relatively brief exposure to several identified examples of their work. The concept learning of poetic styles, using a transfer paradigm with 2 groups of 27 Ss, extends earlier findings on the learning of artistic styles to prose materials. The results have implications for both aesthetic issues and the study of verbal learning.
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