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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...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1944 - 1963
Main Authors: Ishiguro, Sho, Guitard, Dominic, Saint-Aubin, Jean
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Aug2025
Subjects:
Memory
Semantics
Prompts (Psychology)
Research funding
Short-term memory
Thought & thinking
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