“…J. Peterson & Berryhill, 2013;Quinlan & Cohen, 2012;Sanocki & Sulman, 2011), phonological (Fallon et al, 1999;Gupta et al, 2005;Nimmo & Roodenrys, 2004), visuospatial (De Lillo, 2004;Parmentier et al, 2005Parmentier et al, , 2006 and semantic WM AND SIMILARITY 4 (Monnier & Bonthoux, 2011;Neale & Tehan, 2007;Poirier & Saint-Aubin, 1995;Saint-Aubin & Poirier, 1999) domains, suggesting that this beneficial effect of similarity is a domain-general property of the human cognitive system. A recent work suggests an indirect benefit of compression (Kowialiewski et al, 2022): when the first items of a list to be remembered are similar, they are obviously better recalled than dissimilar items. Most importantly, subsequent items, although dissimilar from each other, also benefit from being preceded by similar items.…”