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Four experiments examined free recall of generally incomprehensible sentences with appropriate cues that made the sentences comprehensible. A distinction is made between processes involved in an effort toward comprehension and elaboration processes that occur following comprehension. It was found that providing additional time for effort toward comprehension enhanced recall, while providing additional time for elaboration following comprehension did not enhance recall. It was also shown that the effects of effort toward comprehension were contingent upon eventual understanding of the sentence.
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Auble, P.M., Franks, J.J. The effects of effort toward comprehension on recall. Memory & Cognition 6, 20–25 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197424
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