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An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of phonemic or graphemic similarity on recoding of Chinese words. The introduction of acoustic and visual similarity within the list using a retroactive interference design for memory of items showed that both intralist variables were factors causing reduction in recall, with acoustic similarity being more detrimental to short-term retention. An auditory interference task was also shown to have a more severe effect than a visual interference task. Results suggested that dual encoding processes are involved in reading and remembering Chinese.
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This research was supported in part by the Biomedical Sciences Support Center of the University of Maryland to the Center for Language and Cognition, and computer time was provided in full by the Computer Science Center. The authors wish to thank David Horton, James Martin, and Carol Mills for critical readings and helpful comments on the manuscript.
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Mou, LC., Anderson, N.S. Graphemic and phonemic codings of Chinese characters in short-term retention. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 17, 255–258 (1981). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333732
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