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The Co-Ordination of Codes in Short-Term Retention
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The Co-Ordination of Codes in Short-Term Retention

Abstract

The present experiments explored ways in which information encoded along different dimensions might be co-ordinated to determine memory performance. First, can an acoustic similarity decrement be offset by additional semantic encoding? Experiment I offers evidence for this compensatory interaction of codes. Second, does trade-off occur such that more information held in one code means less in another code? Third, are codes additive? Experiment II offers no support for the notion of a trade-off between encoding systems. However, when two codes were made available in the second study, recall was increased over the level achieved by either code alone.

Authors

Levy BA; Craik FIM

Journal

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 33–45

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

January 1, 1975

DOI

10.1080/14640747508400462

ISSN

1747-0218
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