Fig. 1.

Experimental design of Exp. 1. Participants imagined word pairs (AB) in unique context images. One day later, they encoded the same cue word (A) together with a new associate (C). Crucially, a third of the word pairs was presented on the same context image as the day before (same contexts), whereas another third was presented on a new context image (different contexts). For the remaining third of the original episodes, no new related episode was encoded (original memory control). On the final day, participants completed original (AB), new (AC), and inferential (BC) cued recall tests on white backgrounds.