This paper considers what is meant by the term 'coding' in those experiments on acoustic and semantic interference and confusion that claim to demonstrate different coding systems in short- and ...

The general principle of encoding specificity states that retrieval of previously learned information is better when the context at the time of retrieval is similar to that at the time of encoding.

After practice, subjects continued the matching task in the presence of incongruent color words. Stroop interference persisted, contrary to predictions. Because subjects reported adopting verbal ...