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Ambler, Bruce A.; Proctor, Janet D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1976
A familiarity effect in these experiments is defined as a subject's ability to respond more rapidly to a familiar stimulus than to an unfamiliar stimulus. Evidence indicates that familiarity does not affect an initial encoding process, but it can affect a comparison process. (Editor/RK)
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