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In deciding that two items come from the same category, subjects were delayed if the items were presented as a word and a picture, as compared with two words or two pictures. Subjects were not delayed if the items were not to be compared. Hence, the delay appears to occur during the retrieval and comparison of know ledge about the items, not during their perceptual analysis. The results suggest that there are two distinct codes involved in the categorization of words and pictures, rather than a single code.
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Harris, P.L., Morris, P.E. & Bassett, E. Classifying pictures and words: Implications for the dual-coding hypothesis. Memory & Cognition 5, 242–246 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197368
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