It seems to be this noncomprehension to comprehension which results in better recall.

The man paused when he saw the look of noncomprehension on Justyn's face.

As he did so, his face creased into a frown of noncomprehension.

Instead I put on a face of noncomprehension.

Anne threw out her hands and shook her head in noncomprehension.

She could tell from his noncomprehension that he must not have been awake for any part of the end of the translation.

Dyer frowned his noncomprehension, but the soldier went on.

Seeing her expression of noncomprehension, he added, "Police College, near Reading.

Gallian stared at the Terrans first in noncomprehension, then with slowly growing incredulity.

Philh'pe broke into French, with gestures of noncomprehension.

Not out of prurience, or anything Alice could dislike; there was a total noncomprehension there.

McCoy stretched lazily while Spock looked at him in total noncomprehension.

Esste hammed exasperation and noncomprehension.

"Liars, cheats, killers, the kind of people who'd pour gasoline on a dog-" She felt the total noncomprehension of that one, and stopped.

He chuckled at Regis' look of noncomprehension and explained, and had the surprising experience of seeing Regis Hastur blushing.

Vice President Donald Reyes leaned forward in his chair and looked at William Foreshaw with a mixture of noncomprehension and plain disbelief.

The shop's mock proprietor - in both cases, Peter Funt, the show's executive producer and co-host (with the sitcom actress Suzanne Somers) - will profess benign noncomprehension of his customers' quandary.

I began enthusing over the nostalgic wonders of the little plastic-and-metal icons, and only paused in my panegyric when I caught the look of total noncomprehension on the face of my Helen of Troy.