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A number of CCC trigrams were presented one at a time to Ss over a period of four days. Using Peterson and Peterson’s technique, recall of the items was tested after varying retention intervals. On each day half of the trigrams were presented aurally and the other half visually. Results of the study showed that recall following short retention intervals was better when the mode of presentation was auditory. At longer intervals recall either tended to be better when the items were presented visually or did not differ between the two modes of presentation.
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This research was supported by Grant APB-86 from the National Research Council of Canada to the second author. We are grateful to Miss Audrey Kirby and Miss Peggy Sheffer for their assistance in running Ss.
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Cooley, R.K., McNulty, J.A. Recall of individual CCC trigrams over short intervals of time as a function of mode of presentation. Psychon Sci 9, 543–544 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327880
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