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The persistence of structural priming: transient activation or implicit learning?

K Bock1, Z M Griffin

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 61801, USA. kbock@s.psych.uiuc.edu

Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
|June 27, 2000
PubMed
Summary

Structural priming, the tendency to repeat sentence structures, persists longer than transient memory suggests. Findings support procedural learning as the mechanism behind this language production phenomenon.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Language Production

Background:

  • Structural priming describes the tendency to replicate recently used syntactic structures.
  • This phenomenon is independent of specific words or semantic content.
  • Two main hypotheses explain structural priming: transient memory activation and procedural learning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the persistence of structural priming.
  • To differentiate between memory-based and learning-based explanations for structural priming.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted to assess the duration of structural priming effects.
  • Participants' sentence production was analyzed for structural repetition over varying intervals.

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Main Results:

  • Structural priming effects persisted beyond immediately following sentences in both experiments.
  • Priming endured over 2 intervening sentences in Experiment 1 and over 10 in Experiment 2.

Conclusions:

  • The long-lasting nature of structural priming supports a procedural learning account.
  • Transient memory activation alone is insufficient to explain the observed persistence of structural priming.