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Recall of auditory items can be disrupted by presentation of an irrelevant auditory stimulus (a stimulus suffix). Previous researchers have suggested that suffix effects are not found on recognition tests. Two experiments are presented here that demonstrate suffix effects on recognition tests. These results suggest that suffixes interfere with item information and that suffix effects cannot be attributed solely to retrieval processes.
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Greene, R.L. Stimulus suffix effects in recognition memory. Memory & Cognition 16, 206–209 (1988). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197753
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