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Two hundred subjects were required to write down a specified number of names of birds. Absolute frequencies of names emitted were higher than those found by Battig and Montague (1969), but, as they also found, frequencies decreased sharply from a few high-frequency names.
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Duncan, C.P. Prodded retrieval from a semantic category. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 6, 61–62 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333146
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