When distraction benefits memory through semantic similarity
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When distraction benefits memory through semantic similarity
The processing of the relation between targets and distracters which underpins the impairment in memory for visually presented words when accompanied by semantically related auditory distracters—the between-sequence semantic similarity effect—might also disambiguate category membership of to-be-remembered words, bringing about improved memory for these words at recall. In this series of experim...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Memory and Language
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0749-596X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2016.11.005