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===Role of semantics===

[[Semantics]] dodoes not always play a role in encoding specificity; memory, rather, depends upon the context at encoding and retrieval.<ref name="Semantics revisited" /> Early research has shown that semantically related cues should be effective in retrieving a word provided the semantic cue was encoded along with the target word. If the semantically related word is not present at the time of encoding, it will not be efficient at cuing recall for the target word.<ref name="Semantic Interpretation">{{cite journal|last=Reder|first=Lynne|author2=John Anderson |author3=Robert Bjork |title=A semantic interpretation of encoding specificity|journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology|year=1974|volume=102|issue=4|pages=648–656|doi=10.1037/h0036115}}</ref>

Regardless of semantic relatedness of the paired words, participants more effectively recalled target words that had been primed when prompted for recall.<ref name=Tulving /> Many of the following experiments employed a method modeled off of Thomson and Tulving's. All, however, had slight variations which allowed the researchers to discover their own individual findings. The following table shows the importance of priming through word pairs to achieve enhanced recall of words encoded together.<ref name="Two-Phase Model">{{cite journal|last=Bahrick|first=Harry|title=Two-phase model for prompted recall|journal=Psychological Review|year=1970|volume=77|issue=3|pages=215–222|doi=10.1037/h0029099}}</ref>