Abstract
A statistical procedure that separates storage from retrieval was used to study the acoustic similarity effect as a function of retention interval in the Brown-Peterson paradigm. Both storage and retrieval components showed reliable and independent changes with retention interval, but only the storage component was affected by acoustic similarity. Hence, acoustic similarity affects trace durability and retrieval plays no essential role in the similarity effect. This finding is inconsistent with the address hypothesis (cf. Baddeley, 1968). It is argued that acoustic similarity induces subjects to encode the target item in a confused fashion, particularly in regard to order information.
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