Does Semantic Congruency Accelerate Episodic Encoding, or Increase Semantic Elaboration?

The ability to remember new information can be influenced by the degree to which it matches previously established knowledge. This phenomenon was first described over 80 years ago by [Bartlett (1932)][1], who introduced the role of “schema” as an activated part of semantic memory that matches

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