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In general, pictures are freely recalled better than words, but results of a pilot experiment indicated that this picture-superiority effect diminished with successive lists. We report here an experiment in which we investigated how the diminution over lists would respond to manipulation of rate of presentation and list length. Although the diminution over lists did not replicate, the experiment serves to extend the generality of the picture-superiority effect.
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This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant BNS 8416300 to Arthur Glenberg. We wish to thank Tim Courtney and Teena Wilson for their help in collecting and scoring the data.
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Barnhart, R., Glenberg, A. Extension of the picture-superiority effect over multiple lists. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 28, 1–3 (1990). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337631
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