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Mather, Emily; Plunkett, Kim – Infancy, 2009
During the second year of life, infants develop a preference to attach novel labels to novel objects. This behavior is commonly known as "mutual exclusivity" (Markman, 1989). In an intermodal preferential looking experiment with 19.5- and 22.5-month-olds, stimulus repetition was critical for observing mutual exclusivity. On the first…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Toddlers, Visual Discrimination, Memory
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Mulligan, Neil W.; Osborn, Katherine – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
The modality-match effect in recognition refers to superior memory for words presented in the same modality at study and test. Prior research on this effect is ambiguous and inconsistent. The present study demonstrates that the modality-match effect is found when modality is rendered salient at either encoding or retrieval. Specifically, in…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Recall (Psychology), Evaluation, Experiments