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The least-frequent meanings of homophones were biased by two exposure conditions that varied in the extent to which the processing of biasing information was attentive and effortful. Memory was assessed with both explicit (recognition) and implicit tasks. For the implicit task, scores reflected the extent to which the biased meanings were apparent in subjects’ later spellings of or free associatons to old homophones. The results indicate that attentive processing during encoding is likely to invite analytic processing in both implicit and explicit tasks. Furthermore, unattended exposure may lead to nonanalytic processing across both tasks, with subjects relying on a fluency heuristic for the explicit task. Comparable results were obtained from the spelling and the free-association tasks.
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Anooshian, L.J. Effects of attentive encoding on analytic and nonanalytic processing in implicit and explicit retrieval tasks. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 27, 5–8 (1989). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329881
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