An experiment is reported in which the distortion effects found in the recall of a visually perceived figure, which had been presented together with a verbal label, were confined to one dimension of the figure. This made possible the direct measurement of the effect in physical units and also the use of recognition as a method of recall. It was found that the method of recall, i.e., reproduction or recognition, made little or no difference to the amount of distortion produced.
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