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Cross‐modality Priming for Individual Words in Memory for Coherent Texts
Author(s) -
Nicolas Serge,
Söderlund Hedvig
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.00180
Subject(s) - priming (agriculture) , psychology , response priming , modality (human–computer interaction) , implicit memory , perception , repetition priming , context (archaeology) , cognitive psychology , modality effect , test (biology) , repetition (rhetorical device) , cognition , linguistics , working memory , lexical decision task , computer science , short term memory , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , paleontology , philosophy , botany , germination , biology
This study explores implicit memory within the domain of text processing. Three experiments were designed to study cross‐modality priming in a word‐stem completion test following presentation of target words in the context of a coherent text. Four main results emerged. First, we found a significant priming effect for words previously studied in a text, this priming is higher with low‐frequency words than with high‐frequency words. Second, subjects demonstrated more repetition priming when study and test modalities matched than when they were different. Third, the magnitude of the priming effect in the visual condition varied with the perceptual processing of the text read. Fourth, priming effects did not depend on subjects’ remembering of the words of text read as measured by a yes/no recognition test since no modality effect was found in this latter memory test. These results challenge Levy’s (1993) view and are discussed in the framework of the transfer appropriate processing view proposed by Roediger, Weldon and Challis (1989).