baddley

• 4 different groups were given different list of words that were acoustically similar or dissimilar or semantically similar or dissimilar
• found that when they were recalled immediately by recalling from the STM they tended to d better with acoustically similar words
• when recalled the word list after a time interval of 20 mins recall from LTM the semantically similar words were better
• concludes that information is coded acoustically in STM and semantically in LTM