findings

• Findings: ​

  • Words with similar sounds were much harder to recall using STM than
• • words with dissimilar sounds​
• • Similarity of meaning had only a very slight detrimental effect on STM​
• • When participants were recalling from LTM, recall was much worse for semantically similar words than for semantically dissimilar words​
• • Recall from LTM was the same for acoustically similar and acoustically dissimilar words​

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