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A quasi-replication of the often cited 1957 Wallace, Turner, and Perkins study failed to reproduce the striking performance of 99% and 95% recall of 500 and 700 PA nouns, after one “mental imagery ” learning trial, which was reported in the original study. One subject in the present study was, however, found to exhibit correct recall of 75.8% of 348 PA response members and 87.5% of 154 pairs involving two concrete nouns, while under instructions to use a mental imagery learning strategy.
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Wallace, W. H., Turner, S. H., & Perkins, C. C. Preliminary studies of human information storage (Signal Corps Project No. 1320c). Philadcphia: University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Cooperative Research, 1957.
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Senter, R.J., Richter, D.O., Wilson, S.D. et al. Wallace, Turner, and Perkins revisited. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 20, 178–179 (1982). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334808
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