Interactions between forms of memory: when priming hinders new episodic learning.

Interactions Between Forms of Memory: When Priming Hinders New Episodic Learning

Persistence of negative priming: II. Evidence for episodic trace retrieval.

Responses to recently ignored stimuli may be slower or less accurate than to new stimuli. This negative priming effect decays over time when delay is randomized within subjects, but not when delay varies between subjects. In Experiment 1, response-stimulus intervals (RSI) of 500 and 4,000 ms were randomized within subjects in a target localization task. Negative priming of ignored locations dim...

Age-Related Differences in the Use of Phonology to Facilitate Implicit and Explicit Memory for New Associations

Two experiments tested young and older adults’ retrieval of episodic memories under intentional (i.e., explicit) and incidental (i.e., implicit) retrieval conditions following either an implicit encoding task (Experiment 1) or an explicit encoding task (Experiment 2). In addition, the ability of young and older adults to use lexically identical and phonological primes/cues to retrieve newly-for...

Adding new word associations to semantic memory: evidence for two interactive learning components.

The addition of newly learned word associations to semantic memory was investigated in three experiments. In these experiments word pairs were repeatedly presented as prime-target pairs in a lexical decision task. Performance on repeated pairs (both pre-experimentally associated and initially unrelated pairs) was compared to that on neutral pairs. In Experiments 1 and 2, effects of prior study ...

Beyond dissociation: Exploring interactions between implicit priming and explicit recognition

Over the last 30 or more years evidence has accumulated in favour of the view that memory is not a unitary faculty; rather, it can be subdivided into a number of functionally independent subsystems. Whilst dividing memory phenomena into these distinct subsystems has undoubtedly advanced our understanding of memory as a whole, the approach of studying subsystems in isolation fails to address pot...