An investigation of time course of category and semantic priming.
Low semantically similar exemplars in a category demonstrate the category-priming effect through priming of the category (i.e., exemplar-category-exemplar), whereas high semantically similar exemplars in the same category demonstrate the semantic-priming effect (i.e., direct activation of one high semantically similar exemplar by another). The author asked whether the category- and semantic-priming effects are based on a common memory process. She examined this question by testing the time courses of category- and semantic-priming effects. She tested participants on either category- or semantic-priming paradigm at 2 different time intervals (6 min and 42 min) by using a lexical decision task using exemplars from categories. Results showed that the time course of category priming was different from that of semantic priming. The author concludes that these 2 priming effects are based on 2 separate memory processes.
Center of Alcohol Studeis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA. shmita@rci.rutgers.edu
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D003463:Cues; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D013997:Time Factors