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Two experiments concerned the Ranschburg effect (RE), the poorer short-term recall of repeated elements than recall of corresponding control elements in strings near span in length. Experiment 1 showed an RE of the usual size, even when 50% of the strings contained repeated elements that always occupied a fixed pair of serial positions. Experiment 2 showed that as the percentage of strings in a set of 40 that contained repetition in an invariant structure increased from 20 to 90 (and perhaps from 0 to 100), there was no corresponding change in the magnitude of the RE.
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This research was supported by a grant, GB-28702X, from the National Science Foundation to Miami University.
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Malmi, R.A., Jahnke, J.C. Invariant repetition structure and the Ranschburg effect. Psychon Sci 28, 247–250 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328728
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328728