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List-discrimination performance was tested under six conditions, varying the ILI, or interlist interval (immediate vs 15 min), and the TI, or test interval (immediate vs 15 min or 1 day). Performance increased with the length of the ILI and decreased with the length of the TI. This outcome lends support to the notion that one factor underlying forgetting is a loss of discrimination of list membership of items in storage, and that this discrimination is based partly on the apparent-recency dimension.
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Hintzman, D.L., Waters, R.M. Interlist and retention intervals in list discrimination. Psychon Sci 17, 357–358 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335279
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