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The results of two experiments indicated that the presence of sentences as context has a deleterious effect on the recall and clustering of related nouns, even when the method of complete presentation is used and the nouns are underlined. There was weak evidence that the sentence-context effect was due to the presence of context words and not to the ordering of the context words as sentences.
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This investigation was supported by Grant MH 16991 from the National Institute of Mental Health and by a Biomedical Sciences Support jrant from Michigan State University. Thanks are iue to Joyce Pennington for assistance during all Dhases of the investigation.
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Wood, G. Free recall of nouns presented in sentences. Psychon Sci 18, 76–77 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335703
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