In an experiment performed to compare the effect of oral and written administration of the m task, using concrete and abstract stimuli, it was found that concrete stimuli elicited more responses and that this effect was more marked for oral responding. No significant effect was found for response mode, and significant correlations across stimulus types were found. The results are discussed in terms of previous research on imagery.
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