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College students read sections of a textbook that included both regular and boxed material, and took a multiple-choice test over the material 24 h later. Subjects instructed to attend to boxed material scored significantly higher on questions covering this material than did subjects not so instructed.
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Miller, H.R., Davis, S.F. Recall of boxed material in textbooks. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 31, 31–32 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334131
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334131