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Verb frequency and enactment in implicit and explicit memory
J Engelkamp1, H D Zimmer, A Kurbjuweit
1Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Psychological Research
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
In this article we report on two experiments concerning the effects of verb frequency and enactment on explicit- and implicit-memory tests. The results showed that verb frequency and enactment had additive effects on (explicit) recognition. Moreover, an (implicit) verb-identification test showed that prior enactment had absolutely no influence on this test, while verb frequency had a clear-cut effect. These results speak in favor of the assumption that verb-frequency and enactment effects are based on different types of information. It is further assumed that the verb-frequency effect is a lexical effect, whereas the enactment effect is not.