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Trigrams of high or low meaningfulness were paired with 1-chunk or 2-chunk recoding cues in short-term memory. The presence or either 1-chunk or 2-chunk cues reduced but did not eliminate the effects of meaningfulness on trigram recall.
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1. Supported by a National Science Foundation research grant.
2. I wish to thank Daniel Edwards and Bernard Ostrowski for collecting the data.
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Lindley, R.H. Recoding as a function of chunking and meaningfulness. Psychon Sci 6, 393–394 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330953
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