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. 2015 Dec 17;6:1907. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01907

Table 1.

Anonymous reviewers' comments regarding experiments that yielded similar free recall performance in an enactment and in an observation condition.

1. “It seems odd to me that in a three-experiment report on the enactment effect there is not a single enactment effect demonstrated […].”
2. “When the authors failed to get the basic [enactment] effect, they should have gone fully after it […].”
3. “From my perspective it's critical to establish that the materials, as constructed, are sensitive enough to elicit any kind of enactment effect […].”
4. “[…] the authors should have placed their initial hypothesis on hold and have gone after the null enactment effect […].”
5. “If recognition test is more sensitive to pick up the differences, then I suggest they [i.e., the authors] exploit that test to a greater extent, rather than rely on the null effects in free recall […].”
6. “ I'm particularly sensitive to this issue because I, too, have been in the position of developing my own novel enactment stimuli, which, at first, weren't yielding a significant effect. I had to tinker with them until they did, and only then was it appropriate that I explore more specific questions with my materials.”