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1Psychology Department, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, 61920, USA. jhmace@eiu.edu.
Memory & Cognition
|March 4, 2020
Summary
Processing words and pictures activates personal memories, demonstrating semantic-to-autobiographical priming across various contexts. This research extends findings on how semantic memory influences autobiographical recall.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuroscience of Memory
Background:
- Previous research established that semantic memory activation can prime autobiographical memories.
- Mace et al. (2019) showed semantic processing of words primed related autobiographical memories in voluntary and involuntary tasks.
Purpose of the Study:
- To replicate semantic-to-autobiographical priming effects.
- To extend these priming effects to a broader range of stimuli beyond those used previously.
Main Methods:
- Experiment 1: Assessed semantic-to-autobiographical priming using a vigilance task with concept words presented in isolation and in sentences.
- Experiment 2: Examined priming with both linguistic (words) and nonlinguistic (pictures) stimuli using the vigilance task.
Main Results:
- Semantic-to-autobiographical priming was confirmed in Experiment 1 for both isolated and contextualized word processing.
- Priming effects were replicated in Experiment 2, demonstrating that both words and pictures can elicit semantic-to-autobiographical priming.
Conclusions:
- Semantic-to-autobiographical activations are robust and occur across diverse contexts, including language and perception.
- These findings support a broad model of memory activation where semantic information readily influences autobiographical remembering.
Keywords:
Autobiographical memoryAutobiographical memory functionsAutobiographical memory primingSemantic memorySemantic primingSemantic-to-autobiographical primingMore Related Videos
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