procedures

• Procedures: In the STM study, participants were asked immediately after presentation, to recall, in serial order, a list of five words taken from a pool of words in the following categories.​
• • acoustically similar words, (eg  man, mad, map): Words that sound the same​
• • acoustically dissimilar words (eg pen, day few): Words that sound different​
• • semantically similar words (eg  great, big, large): Words that have the same meaning​
• • semantically dissimilar words (eg  hot, old, late): Words that have a different meaning​
• In the LTM study, each list of words was extended to ten, and recall was tested after an interval of twenty minutes.​

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