The role of involuntary aware memory in the implicit stem and fragment completion tasks: a selective review.
In this article I argue that an awareness of the study episode that arises involuntarily during an implicit stem/fragment completion test can under some conditions lead to enhanced repetition priming effects, even though subjects are not engaged in intentional retrieval. I review findings that are consistent with this possibility, which include the effects of depth of processing, and of typography match and new association priming following deep encoding. A theoretical account of involuntary aware memory couched within Moscovitch's (1995b) memory systems framework which suggests that the medial-temporal lobe/hippocampal (MTL/H) complex functions as a memory module is outlined. A putative mechanism is proposed in which involuntary aware memory of a studied item enhances the size of repetition priming effects by guiding its selection in preference to the competitors.
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Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2109. sachiko.kinoshita@mq.edu.au
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology