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Subjects received training with four-letter consonant strings in two different tasks over a 6-day training period. One was a paired associate learning task in which the letter strings were used as response elements, and the other was a simultaneous matching task in which subjects were required to judge whether or not pairs of the consonant strings were physically identical. In a test session in which subjects performed the matching task, stimuli from both paired associate and matching training tasks were matched more quickly than control strings that had not been seen previously. Further analyses suggested that the familiarity effect for paired associate stimuli resulted from more “holistic” processing than the familiarity effect for stimuli previously matched in training.
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This research was supported in part by a grant from the University of Massachusetts honors program and alumni association. The first author is now a graduate student at Ohio State University.
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Kidd, G.R., Pollatsek, A. & Well, A.D. Two types of induced familiarity in the matching of letter strings. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 10, 179–182 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329316
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329316