Ss inspected sequences of photographs belonging to a particular category. Half of the items were presented twice within a sequence, and the task was to recognize the items which had occurred earlier. Correct recognition rate was around 72%, irrespective of whether the number of intervening. items was 8, 16, 24, or 32.
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