Effects of repetition priming on recognition memory: testing a perceptual fluency-disfluency model.
Five experiments explored the effects of immediate repetition priming on episodic recognition (the "Jacoby-Whitehouse effect") as measured with forced-choice testing. These experiments confirmed key predictions of a model adapted from D. E. Huber and R. C. O'Reilly's (2003) dynamic neural network of perception. In this model, short prime durations pre-activate primed items, enhancing perceptual fluency and familiarity, whereas long prime durations result in habituation, causing perceptual disfluency and less familiarity. Short duration primes produced a recognition preference for primed words (Experiments 1, 2, and 5), whereas long duration primes produced a preference against primed words (Experiments 3, 4, and 5). Experiment 2 found prime duration effects even when participants accurately identified short duration primes. A cued-recall task included in Experiments 3, 4, and 5 found priming effects only for recognition trials that were followed by cued-recall failure. These results suggest that priming can enhance as well as lower familiarity, without affecting recollection. Experiment 4 provided a manipulation check on this procedure through a delay manipulation that preferentially affected recognition followed by cued-recall success.
Huber
David E
DE
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109, USA. dhuber@psy.ucsd.edu
Clark
Tedra F
TF
Curran
Tim
T
Winkielman
Piotr
P
D001288:Attention; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003463:Cues; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology