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A partial report technique employing a visual marker was used to study the perceptual repetition effect. The repeated item (one row of a 3 by 3 array) was presented tachistoscopically several times, but was not reported by S until a test trial was given. No repetition effect was found when S was required to report another item from the array on each repetition trial. However, a repetition effect (improved recognition performance) did occur when S was required merely to attend to another item, without response, during the repetition trials. It also occurred when S attended, without response, to the whole array on each repetition trial.
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Standing, L., DaPolito, F. Limitations of the repetition effect revealed by partial report. Psychon Sci 13, 297–298 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03342594
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