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Semantic memory and the generation effect: Some tests of the lexical activation hypothesis
1985
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition
A word from a list is more likely to be recalled if it was self-generated rather than read. This finding--the generation effect--has been attributed to semantic memory and, more particularly, to the enhanced activation of the semantic features comprising a word's representation in the subjective lexicon. Three experiments showed that a similar generation effect occurs for meaningful but not for meaningless letter bigrams (e.g., E T vs. E C); for unitized but not for nonunitized 2-digit numbers
doi:10.1037/0278-7393.11.1-4.732
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