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An examination was made of the salience of word gender as an encoding dimension. Ss received three Brown-Peterson tests with Spanish nouns, all of the same gender. On Test 4, there was a change in word gender for experimental Ss, and no change for control Ss. A small, but significant, release from PI occurred with gender change. Results were interpreted in terms of Wickens’s (1972) classification of stimulus dimensions.
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This study was supported by a University Research Institute grant from the University of Texas at El Paso and by National Science Foundation Grant GB-36210.
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Goggin, J.P. Proactive interference and gender change in short- term memory. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 3, 222–224 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333452
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