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The primary question was whether part-list cuing decrements would occur in a speededyes/no recognition task and free recall. After studying category exemplars, participants were tested either after re-presentation of a subset of the exemplars (cues) or without re-presentation. Free recall of all study items followed the recognition task in each trial. Across two experiments, results demonstrated partlist cuing impairment in two ways: significant slowing of target recognition and lower free recall of target items in cued than in uncued trials. These findings extend the limited research on part-list cuing in recognition and support retrieval inhibition and retrieval competition interpretations of the phenomenon. Moreover, despite arguments for the necessity of the presence of cues for part-list inhibition, the present experiments demonstrate that the negative effects of cues can persist in their absence.
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Oswald, K.M., Serra, M. & Krishna, A. Part-list cuing in speeded recognition and free recall. Memory & Cognition 34, 518–526 (2006). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193575
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