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This study examined immediate recall in two stimulus prefix and two stimulus suffix conditions and in a condition that combined a prefix and suffix. Suffixes and the combination of a prefix with a suffix interfered more with recall overall than did prefixes. Performance in each of the conditions that included a prefix was significantly better overall than in appropriate control conditions, in which interference was augmented by a redundant element in recall. It was suggested that prefixes and suffixes lie operationally on a continuum and that their effects result from the subject’s inability to dissociate the redundant element from the memory series. However, the location of redundancy imposes different processing requirements that differentially influence recall.
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This research was supported by a grant from the Faculty Research Committee, Miami University.
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Jahnke, J.C., Nowaczyk, R.H. & Wozniak, W. Stimulus redundancy and immediate recall. Memory & Cognition 4, 357–360 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03213189
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