Figure 1.

Free recall of speech-relevant and speech-irrelevant words by experimental condition and manipulation-encoding delay. Participants in the stress condition showed significantly greater free recall of speech-relevant words than speech-irrelevant words when the words were encoded during the stress/control manipulation (after speech preparation time but before the speech was delivered), whereas participants in the control condition did not. Free recall did not differ by an experimental condition or speech relevance with a 40-min delay between stress/control manipulation onset and encoding.