Animates are better remembered than inanimates: further evidence from word and picture stimuli.
In three experiments, we showed that animate entities are remembered better than inanimate entities. Experiment 1 revealed better recall for words denoting animate than inanimate items. Experiment 2 replicated this finding with the use of pictures. In Experiment 3, we found better recognition for an...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 370 - 383 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2014
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