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Comment author: lessdazed 22 November 2011 07:07:16AM *  1 point [-]

One, easily testable, prediction of this theory is that returning to the original room will make the memory more easily accessible.

They tested it in a recent paper.

In Experiment 3, the original encoding context was reinstated by having a person return to the original room in which objects were first encoded. However, inconsistent with an encoding specificity account, memory did not improve by reinstating this context.