A row of 9 meaningful or nonsense trigrams was presented in either the same or random order to 4 groups of undergraduate students until a criterion of perfect recall. Improvements in memory for nonsense, but not meaningful, material resulted from additions to ends of previous lists. Serial order of input led to serial recall; random input led to random recall on final trials.
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