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Published on: July 13, 2019
Implicit memory for phonological processes in visual stem completion
1Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269, USA. rueckl@psych.psy.uconn.edu
Abstract:
Four experiments were conducted investigating the role of phonology in repetition priming. Experiment 1 used a cross-modal priming paradigm in which participants made semantic judgments about spoken words and then performed a visual stem completion task. In Experiments 2-4, both the primes and the test stems were presented visually. The results of the first three experiments revealed that priming transfers across interpretations of a homophone. That is, seeing or hearing week primes both week and weak. The results of Experiment 4 showed that homophone priming cannot be attributed to the orthographic similarity of homophonic words. Together, these results indicate that repetition priming on a visual word completion task includes a phonological component.
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