Examining the semantic relatedness effect on working memory with ad hoc categories.
The semantic relatedness effect, a memory advantage of semantically related items (e.g., "penguin, giraffe, goat"), is well established in the literature on working memory (WM). Nevertheless, it remains unclear what mechanisms are responsible for this effect. Although an influential account ascribes...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1944 - 1963 |
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