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Recall of List 1 was tested immediately and at 24 h following the learning of blocked, categorized lists in a conventional retroactive inhibition (RI) design. Significant RI was found only at 24 h. The results were discussed in terms of loss of list differentiation with time.
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1. This research was supported by National Science Foundation Grant GB-4993. I am grateful to Sheila Krystal for her assistance in collecting and analyzing the data.
2. This report was prepared while the author held a Special Research Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service at the Institute of Human Learning, University of California, Berkeley.
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Winograd, E. Delayed retroactive inhibition with categorized lists. Psychon Sci 10, 127–128 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331441
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