Haskins Publications

Number	1469
Year	2007
Drawer	26
Entry Date	05/15/2008
Authors	Lukatela, G., Eaton, T., Moreno, M.A. & Turvey, M.T.
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Publication	Memory & Cognition, V. 35:No.4(2007), pp. 781-800.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1469.pdf
Abstract	Weaker inter- than intramodality long-term priming of words has promoted two hypotheses: (1) separate visual and auditory lexicons and (2) modality dependence of implicit memory. In five experiments, we employed manipulations aimed to minimize study-test asymmetries between the two priming conditions. Activities at visual and auditory study were matched, words were phonologically consistent, and study modality was manipulated between subjects. Equal magnitudes of inter- and intramodality priming were found in experiments with visual and auditory stem completion at test, with visual fragment completion at test, and with visual and auditory perceptual identification at test. A within-subjects experiment yielded the conventional intramodality advantage. The results point to a single amodal lexicon and to modality-independent phonological processing as the basis of implicit word memory.
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