Repetition Priming Is Not Purely Episodic In Origin.
| Number | 607 |
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| Year | 1987 |
| Drawer | 11 |
| Entry Date | 11/17/1999 |
| Authors | Feldman, L., B. & Moskovljevic, J. |
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| Publication | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol. 13, No. 4, 573-581. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0607.pdf |
| Abstract | The sufficiency of similarity among surface attributes of prime-target pairs to account for the pattern of facilitation obtained in the repetition priming paradigm was evaluated. In Experiment 1, morphological primes were singular, inflected case forms of Serbo-Croatian words and visual similarity of prime and target was manipulated by alternating the two alphabets in which the Serbo Croatian language is written. Results indicated that the magnitude of facilitation in the alphabetically alternating condition was not reduced relative to the nonalternating condition (RUPI -RUPI vs. ΡΥΠ-RUPI) which suggested that visual similarity is not a necessary condition for facilitation in the present task. In Experiment 2, related pairs included (a) base forms with diminutives, a class of highly productive and semantically predictable derivations marked in Serbo-Croatian by suffixes and (b) base words with morphologically unrelated monomorphemic words whose orthographically similar but morphologically unrelated primes was observed although there was a tendency toward facilitation among structurally similar pseudowords. Collectively, the experiments suggested that structural similarity of prime and target is not a sufficient condition for facilitation in the repetition priming paradigm. |
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