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Context-Dependent Memory

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Context-dependent memory is improved retrieval when the external setting matches the setting of encoding.

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Divers who learned word lists underwater recalled more underwater than on land.

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The effect is real and modest. It matters most when retrieval is otherwise near the edge of failing.