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Latencies of first associations to low-meaningful dissyllables were taken for five groups of Ss. Four of the groups were familiarized on dissyllables from the association list; the fifth group was familiarized on a list containing scrambled versions of the association list. Results suggested that familiarization with the association list words tended to increase m (as measured by association latency).
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This study was carried out under the auspices of the Human Learning Research Institute, Michigan State University.
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Moursund, J.P. Familiarity and meaningfulness in nonsense words. Psychon Sci 6, 501–502 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328112
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