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The role of item similarity in part-list cueing impairment

  • 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.

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Author:Alp AslanORCiD, Karl-Heinz Bäuml
URL:https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210902740886
Parent Title (English):The role of item similarity in part-list cueing impairment
Document Type:Article (peer reviewed)
Language:English
Publication Year:2009
Tag:Episodic memory; Feature suppression; Inhibition; Item similarity; Part-list cueing impairment; Retrieval competition
Volume:17
Issue:7
First Page:697
Last Page:707
Peer reviewed:Ja