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Some studies have shown that, although repetition increases the familiarity of a stimulus, it does not improve memory for its details. Because memory for associative information is thought to require memory for the details of study presentation, the effects of repetition on associative recognition were examined in the present study. The pattern of results was similar to that found for the recognition of item details: Repetition increased the familiarity of the individual items within each pair to a greater extent than it improved memory for their specific pairings.
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This research was conducted while A.M.C. was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Mental Retardation Research Training Grant 5-T32-HDO7176-16.
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Cleary, A.M., Curran, T. & Greene, R.L. Memory for detail in item versus associative recognition. Memory & Cognition 29, 413–423 (2001). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03196392
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