The animacy effect on free recall is equally large in mixed and pure word lists or pairs

Abstract The cognitive mechanisms underlying the animacy effect on free recall have as yet to be identified. According to the attentional-prioritization account, animate words are better recalled because they recruit more attention at encoding than inanimate words. The account implies that the anima...

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Published in:	Scientific Reports
Main Authors:	Gesa Fee Komar, Laura Mieth, Axel Buchner, Raoul Bell
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38342-z

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