TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T1 - The role of item similarity in part-list cueing impairment JF - The role of item similarity in part-list cueing impairment N2 - The presentation of a subset of studied items as retrieval cues can have detrimental effects on recall of the remaining (target) items. In three experiments we examined whether such part-list cueing impairment depends on the similarity between cue and target items. Item similarity was manipulated by making use of pre-experimental semantic similarities between cue and target items (Experiments 1 and 2), or was episodically induced through a similarity-encoding task, in which participants were asked to interrelate cue and target items in a meaningful way (Experiment 3). In all three experiments reliable part-list cueing impairment arose when the similarity between cues and targets was low, but no impairment was found when the similarity between cues and targets was high. Inhibitory as well as non-inhibitory explanations of the findings are discussed. KW - Episodic memory KW - Part-list cueing impairment KW - Item similarity KW - Inhibition KW - Feature suppression KW - Retrieval competition Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210902740886 VL - 17 IS - 7 SP - 697 EP - 707 ER -