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CONRAD1,2 has shown that intrusive errors in the recall of letters presented either auditorily or visually are acoustically similar to the presented items. Thus confusions in recall occurred mainly between B, C, P, T and V and between F, M, N, S and X. Subsequent work (for example, Wickelgren3) has confirmed and extended these findings.
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Conrad, R., Nature, 193, 1314 (1962).
Conrad, R., Brit. J. Psychol., 55, 75 (1964).
Wickelgren, W. A., J. Exp. Psychol., 70, 102 (1965).
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CORCORAN, D. An Acoustic Factor in Letter Cancellation. Nature 210, 658 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210658a0
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