title: The production effect: costs and benefits in free recall.
abstract: The production effect, the memorial benefit for information read aloud versus silently, has been touted as a simple memory improvement tool. The current experiments were designed to evaluate the relative costs and benefits of production using a free recall paradigm. Results extend beyond prior work showing a production effect only when production is manipulated within subject, not between, using a free recall paradigm. Furthermore, the results also indicate that the production effect is primarily driven by decreased memory for items read silently, not increased memory for items read aloud.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, John Carroll University.
authors.forename: Angela C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis.
authors.forename: Mary A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Pyc
mesh_terms: D056228:Feedback, Sensory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities