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Training condition was found to confer no specific advantages for learning of novel words presented aurally; reproducing, recalling or restudying a word leads to similar production accuracy over the long term. This study underwent Results-free peer-review.

Keith Laws is Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology in the School of Life and Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is a Chartered Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Institute of Learning and Teaching. He joined to Editorial Board of BMC Psychology as a Section Editor in 2013