Abstract
Seventeen undergraduates received 45 words presented in one of five type fonts at a rate of 5 s per word. They were required to respond associates of currently presented words. The first five words were presented in each of the five fonts, and were used for practice and primacy buffer items. Twenty-four h after the encoding, participants received 40 target and 40 distractor words. Half of the targets were presented in the same font as at encoding, and the others were in a different font selected from the five fonts. Participants were required to judge whether the currently presented word had been presented at encoding (yes) or not (no) by pressing yes or no keys. When they pressed the yes key, they were further required to judge whether the font of the word was the same as at encoding. Results showed clear context-dependent recognition discrimination, conflicting with the ICE theory.
