Hierarchical study triplets, e.g., canary, bird, animal, were followed by a recognition test of one word from each triplet. The test word was presented either in its original study context, with the context deleted, in a context of new unrelated words, or in a context of words taken from a dictionary definition of the original context words, i.e., properties contexts. Recognition in the original and remote properties contexts was superior to all other test contexts. These results support a hypothesis of semantic memory organization proposed by Collins and Quillian (1969).
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