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Ss were asked to listen to a list of words and to identify repeated words upon hearing them. Interspersed with the repetitions were words that were associatively or acoustically related to the repeated words. The intrusion errors were analyzed and the differences across word class found to be highly significant; application of signal-detection theory provided a means of quantifying this difference.
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Ackroff, J.M., Rouse, R.O. TSD and coding in STM. Psychon Sci 21, 231–232 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332459
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