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A tape of 13 relatively labelable and 13 nonlabelable sounds was presented to 13 Ss. Later a second tape containing these same 26 sounds plus 17 new labelable sounds and 17 new nonlabelable sounds was presented to the same Ss. They were asked to indicate when they recognized a sound from the first tape. Ss were able to recognize a significantly greater number of the original labelable sounds than of the original nonlabelable sounds. These results seem to indicate that a dual coding process operates for sounds as well as for visual pictures and objects.
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Clark, M., Stamm, S., Sussman, R. et al. Encoding of auditory stimuli in recognition memory tasks. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 3, 177–178 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333434
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