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Retrieval from long-term memory was investigated in a task in which S was shown a series of pictures of well-known people and asked to say the surname of the person pictured. For half of the pictures S had learned the correct name in a previous free-recall task, i.e., the name was primed. The results were interpreted to indicate that priming facilitated two aspects of retrieval from memory: search and recovery.
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ATKINSON, R. C., & SHIFFRIN, R. M. Some speculations on storage and retrieval processes in long-term memory. Technical Report No. 127, Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, Stanford University, 1968.
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1. This research was supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Grant No. NGR-05-020-036.
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Hopkins, R.H., Atkinson, R.C. Priming and the retrieval of names from long-term memory. Psychon Sci 11, 219–220 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327669
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327669