Do first and last letters carry more weight in the mechanism behind word familiarity?

Psychon Bull Rev · 2022 · PMC8982651 · PMID 35381911

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approached but did not reach significancep = 0.056so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The higher familiarity ratings to words whose unidentified interior letter fragments were studied than to words whose fragments had not been studied approached but did not reach significance ( M = 4.54, SD = 2.30), t (43) = 1.96, SE = 0.09, p = 0.056, Cohen’s d = 0.08.

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