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The results of three experiments suggest that in the release from proactive interference paradigm, increasing item duration facilitates recall but decreasing item duration does not. Two different interpretations of these findings were suggested: an explanation in terms of modification of encoding strategy and an explanation in terms of novelty-arousal.
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The experiments reported in this paper were completed while the senior author was a student at the University of Connecticut.
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Cremins, J.J., Turvey, M.T. Release from short-term proactive interference with change in item duration. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 12, 25–28 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329614
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