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R Ratcliff1, D Allbritton, G McKoon

  • 1Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|January 1, 1997
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Priming effects in auditory memory tasks may stem from response biases rather than presemantic perceptual systems. Prior study did not improve performance in forced-choice identification when alternatives were similar.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Auditory Perception
  • Memory Studies

Background:

  • Implicit auditory memory tasks often show priming for previously studied words.
  • This priming has been attributed to a presemantic perceptual representation system encoding acoustic word features.
  • Alternative explanations for priming effects require investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether auditory priming results from response biases instead of presemantic perceptual systems.
  • To examine the influence of response alternatives' similarity on priming effects.
  • To re-evaluate existing models of auditory information processing.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted using implicit auditory memory tasks.
  • Forced-choice word identification tasks were employed with varying degrees of similarity between response alternatives.

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  • Performance was measured based on prior study status and the similarity of non-studied alternatives.

    • Main Results:

    • No overall performance improvement was observed due to prior study in forced-choice identification with similar alternatives.
    • Benefits for studied words were counteracted by costs for similar, non-studied words.
    • Prior study had no significant effect when forced-choice alternatives were dissimilar.

    Conclusions:

    • Auditory priming effects may arise from response biases rather than purely perceptual mechanisms.
    • The findings challenge the notion of a dedicated presemantic perceptual representation system for auditory word recognition.
    • The results inform current models of auditory processing and priming.