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Repetition effects on word fragment completion: The role of competition among responses
Author(s) -
NYBERG LARS,
NILSSON LARSGÖRAN,
OLOFSSON ULRICH
Publication year - 1994
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/j.1467-9450.1994.tb00933.x
Subject(s) - repetition (rhetorical device) , repetition priming , psychology , implicit memory , priming (agriculture) , word (group theory) , perception , cognitive psychology , rapid serial visual presentation , speech recognition , communication , cognition , linguistics , computer science , lexical decision task , neuroscience , philosophy , botany , germination , biology
Four experiments examined the effect of spaced repetition of study words on completion of word fragments with only one solution and word fragments with multiple solutions. Recognition was used as test of explicit memory in the first two experiments. The study words were presented either once or three times. Repetition was found to increase recognition memory substantially, and to affect fragment completion performance only marginally. This was true for both single‐ and multiple‐solution fragments, showing that competition among responses is not critical for the magnitude of the repetition effect in fragment completion. This finding, that the repetition effect is marginal also when the type of cues provides an occasion for repetition effects to show up, suggests that the real effect of repetition on perceptual priming is borderline. It is proposed that memory from the first presentation eliminates necessary processing of items when they are re‐exposed, and that the repetition effect thereby is reduced.