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Ozubko, Jason D.; Yonelinas, Andrew P. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The pseudoword effect is the finding that pseudowords (i.e., pronounceable nonwords) tend to give rise to more hits and false alarms than words. The familiarity-based account attributes this effect to the fact that pseudowords lack distinctive semantic meanings, which increases the inter-item similarity of pseudowords compared to words and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Familiarity, Experiments, Word Recognition
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Ozubko, Jason D.; MacLeod, Colin M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
The production effect is the substantial benefit to memory of having studied information aloud as opposed to silently. MacLeod, Gopie, Hourihan, Neary, and Ozubko (2010) have explained this enhancement by suggesting that a word studied aloud acquires a distinctive encoding record and that recollecting this record supports identifying a word…
Descriptors: Prediction, Memory, Experiments, Coding