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We investigated whether covert rehearsal of simple musical tones enhanced memory for those tones. Subjects were presented with a series of pairs (Experiment 1) or triples (Experiment 2) of tones played separately. Some of those pairs or triples were cued for covert rehearsal during a silent interval. Although both rehearsed and unrehearsed target items were better recognized than were lure items, rehearsed items were not recognized better than were unrehearsed items. Experiment 3 showed that repetition of such items in the presentation list did benefit memory, however. Twice-presented pairs of tones were better recognized than were once-presented pairs, which in turn were better recognized than were lure pairs.
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We thank Beth Loots for her help in Experiment 2.
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PeynİrcİoĞlu, Z.F., Palmer, M.L. Ineffectiveness of covert rehearsal with tones. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 30, 333–336 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330483
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330483