Distinctiveness and Interference in Free Recall: A Test With the Production Effect

It is well established that when some words within a list are read aloud, or produced, and others are read silently, produced items are better recalled. According to the revised feature model (RFM), this benefit stems from additional features and enhanced distinctiveness. Because the model assigns forgetting to similarity-based retroactive interference, produced items should be better recalled when followed by a silent item than by another …