On the inhibition of reading by generating.

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The article reports two experiments that assess recognition of single words that were initially seen in complete form or as fragments requiring generation. Complete words from lists in which other words were generated were recognized worse than words from lists in which all the words were complete. Thus the demand to generate means complete words will be encoded more poorly than usual. In contrast, generation requires at least a moderate degree of meaningful processing, resulting in recognition that is about the same as for words studied for memory. Recognition of generated targets is beyond recognition of complete words from the same list, unless the read words are processed in a memorable way such as by imagining them; however, even imagined words are recognized worse if other stimuli in the list are fragments than if all the words are compete. In sum, the requirement to generate inhibits processing of complete words, and the act of generating is an encoding process that is better than some but worse than others as a way of studying words.

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