مهار فراخوانی حافظه کلامی به عنوان پیامد بازیابی قبلی

On each trial of the experimental procedure for this study, the words from a sentence were presented, one at a time, in scrambled order. After this, a recognition probe was presented. In the crucial condition, a noun occurred once early in the scrambled sentence and again as the last word in the sentence. The test word was another noun from the sentence. The test noun was recognized less well in this condition than when (1) the scrambled sentence was truncated before the repeated noun so that the test noun was presented immediately before the point at which the repeated noun would have occurred, (2) the repeated noun was replaced with an adverb, and (3) the repeated noun was replaced with a noun that had not occurred previously in the scrambled sentce. These results suggest that the test noun was inhibited in memory following the processing of repeated noun. The inhibition evidently occurred as a consequence of the retrieval of the earlier occurrence of the repeated noun. The same sort of inhibition may occur for nonantecedents following the processing of a repeated-noun anaphor.