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College students listened to a list of 220 words at 2- and 5-sec presentation rates. They had to indicate for each word whether it had appeared before in the list (“yes”) or not (“no”). No differences were found between the conditions, because, it appears, Ss failed to use in a task-relevant manner the extra time available to them in the longer condition. Words related either semantically or phonetically to previously heard words produced more false-recognition errors (i.e., “yes” responses to new words) than control words, suggesting that phonetic traces, not only semantic ones, persist for at least 5 min (this being the maximum separation between a preceding word and a related word).
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Anisfeld, M. False recognition produced by semantic and phonetic relations under two presentation rates. Psychon Sci 17, 366–367 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335285
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