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Jastrzembski, James E.; Stanners, Robert F. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
A task required subjects to make a word-nonword decision to visually presented items--words with a high or low number of meanings or lawful nonwords. Words with several meanings produced shorter decision times, indicating that words with multiple meanings have multiple memory entries. (CHK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Information Retrieval, Information Storage, Memory
