The ability to prioritize valuable information is critical for the efficient use of memory in daily
life. When information is important, we engage more effective encoding mechanisms that …

Abstract Words that are read aloud are more memorable than words that are read silently.
The boundaries of this production effect (MacLeod, Gopie, Hourihan, Neary, & Ozubko …

The production effect is the memory advantage of saying words aloud over simply reading
them silently. It has been hypothesised that this advantage stems from production featuring …

Successful recognition is generally thought to be based on both recollection and familiarity
of studied information. Recent studies found that making judgments of learning (JOLs) can …

Producing (eg, saying, mouthing) some items and silently reading others has been shown to
result in a reliable advantage favoring retention of the produced compared to non-produced …

The production effect refers to the finding that words read aloud are better remembered than
words read silently. This finding is typically attributed to the presence of additional …

The production effect is the superior retention of material read aloud relative to material read
silently during an encoding episode. Thus far it has been explored using isolated words …

Drawing a picture of to-be-remembered information substantially boosts memory
performance in free-recall tasks. In the current work, we sought to test the notion that …

Saying a word out loud makes it more memorable than simply reading it silently. This robust
finding has been labeled the production effect and has been attributed to the enhanced …

Memory is reliably better for information read aloud relative to information read silently—the
production effect. Three preregistered experiments examined whether the production effect …