title: Repetition costs in word identification: evaluating a stimulus-response integration account.
abstract: Stimulus repetition facilitates performance in many experimental contexts. However, an episodic approach to interpreting repetition effects suggests that repetition effects should depend on how stimuli are encoded. In Experiments 1-3, stimulus repetition in a word identification task led to a cost rather than a benefit in performance, but only when the prime was presented for a relatively long duration. One account of these results is that long prime durations allow integration between stimulus and response codes to occur, which in turn can interfere with responding to a following identical target. In Experiment 4, a stimulus intensity based episodic specificity effect that was insensitive to the proportion of repeated trials supported this stimulus-response integration account.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8S 4K1. millike@mcmaster.ca
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Milliken
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lupianez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010507:Periodicity; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014825:Vocabulary