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Beyond binary judgments: prime validity modulates masked repetition priming in the naming task.

Glen E Bodner1, Michael E J Masson

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. bodner@ucalgary.ca

Memory & Cognition
|April 14, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Masked repetition priming effects were stronger when primes were more frequent. This suggests that the brain recruits processing episodes based on prime usefulness probability, impacting memory.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Memory Research

Background:

  • Masked repetition priming effects depend on prime frequency.
  • Previous research suggested processing episodes are constructed for masked primes.
  • Recruitment of these episodes is influenced by the probability of the prime being useful.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if context-sensitive recruitment of primes occurs in non-binary response tasks.
  • To examine the effect of prime validity on masked repetition priming in a naming task.

Main Methods:

  • Used a naming task with a 45-msec prime duration.
  • Manipulated the proportion of trials with repetition primes (.8 vs. .2).
  • Tested uppercase words, case-alternated words, and pseudohomophones.

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Main Results:

  • Masked repetition priming effects were significantly greater when repetition primes occurred on 80% of trials compared to 20%.
  • This effect was observed across different word types, including pseudohomophones.
  • Prime validity effects align with memory recruitment models.

Conclusions:

  • Context-sensitive recruitment of primes is a general mechanism, extending to non-binary tasks.
  • Prime validity effects support memory recruitment views of priming.
  • Activation-based mechanisms may not fully explain these findings.