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Tulving’s retrograde amnesia effect due to a “priority” item was investigated to determine the locus of the effect, whether in the encoding, storage, or retrieval process. The usual effect was eliminated by use of a semantic orienting task (Hyde & Jenkins, 1973), implying an encoding deficiency.
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Portions of this paper were presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 4–6, 1978.
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Fisk, A.D., Wickens, D.D. On the locus of the Tulving retrograde amnesia effect. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 14, 3–6 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329383
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