Short-term implicit memory: Visual, auditory, and cross-modality priming

McKone, Dennis · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 2000 · cognitive-psychology · 10.3758/bf03212991 · record McKone2000-short-term-implicit-memory-visual-auditory-a
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implicit memory explicit memory short-term implicit memory baseline for priming because continuous speech is ambiguous and many apparent nonwords later resolve into words, the phonological lexicon must keep pseudoword-status items active as long as word-status items, producing slow auditory decay for both because the written signal is far less ambiguous, the orthographic lexicon can discard a nonword as soon as the next item arrives, producing the fast visual nonword decay each stimulus is obligatorily recoded into the other perceptual form, and the secondary trace left by that recoding supports the weak cross-modal short-term priming long-term implicit memory pseudoword orthographic lexicon phonological lexicon lag lexical status first presentation modality second presentation modality reaction time error rate order of priming conditions ANOVA repeated measures two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) mean squared error planned contrasts (Helmert) Helmert contrasts t-test three-way ANOVA A three-way ANOVA four-way ANOVA with alpha level mean the mean of all unprimed trials behavioural-experiment

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limitationsBecause no lags beyond 6 were tested, the authors cannot show that the long-term asymptote had actually been reached for auditory items.
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limitationsThe orthographic locus previously assumed for visual short-term priming was never established directly, since words and pseudowords also differ phonologically and semantically.
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what this limits: the orthographic locus assumed in the authors' earlier accounts of short-term priming: they state there is no direct evidence for it and that words and pseudowords also differ phonologically and in semantic familiarity
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limitationsThe obvious definition of the measured quantity is rejected outright, because unprimed response times differ by modality, and a different baseline is substituted.
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what this limits: any comparison of these priming magnitudes with a study that measures priming as first-versus-second presentation: this paper rejects that definition and uses the mean of all unprimed trials of matching lexicality and modality as the baseline
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controlslexical decision times below 300 or above 1,700 msec excluded, along with incorrect responses - 1.3 per cent of reaction times
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sensesshort-term implicit memory - and the commitment the name would carry is DECLINED in the next sentence: separate stores are explicitly not assumed
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sensesimplicit memory - automatic retrieval of the target's initial presentation, defined by CONTRAST with the deliberate conscious retrieval required for explicit memory
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claim_relationsreplicates → McKone (1995)
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strength of the relation: 1
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content_tagsWith visual stimuli, short-term priming decayed faster for nonwords than for words (a lag by lexicality interaction), whereas with auditory stimuli both item types decayed smoothly and slowly.
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content_tagsShort-term priming lasted longer when both presentations were spoken than when both were written.
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content_tagsAuditory nonword priming survived at least three intervening trials (about 8 seconds), while visual nonword priming fell to its long-term level after a single intervening item.
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content_tagsSwitching modality between prime and target reduced short-term priming but never abolished it, for words and nonwords alike.
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content_tagsCross-modal short-term priming persisted to lag 1 for word targets but disappeared after one intervening item for nonwords.
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content_tagsWeak cross-modal short-term priming for words and nonwords indicates recoding between perceptual forms.
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content_tagsModality mismatch significantly reduced priming for visual targets (31 vs. 2 msec) but not for auditory targets (36 vs. 27 msec).
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content_tagsError rates fell from first to second presentation (words 11.3% to 6.0%; nonwords 5.9% to 5.7%).
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content_tagsUnprimed lexical decisions were roughly 320-350 msec faster for written than for spoken items.
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content_tagsFirst-presentation responses were consistently faster when the preceding trial was in the same modality.
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content_tagsThe main locus of short-term priming is the perceptual subsystem in which the item was presented: orthographic for written items, phonological for spoken ones.
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content_tagsV = 620 msec, A = 966 msec — unprimed lexical decision times for visual versus auditory words
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content_tagsF(3,63) = 2.76, MSe = 2,416, P < .05 — the lag by lexicality interaction for same-modality visual priming
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content_tags31 vs. 2 msec, t(21) = 3.57, p < .005 — same-modality versus cross-modality long-term priming at lag 6 for visual targets
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content_tags11.3% to 6.0% — word error rates on first versus second presentation
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content_tags22 — number of subjects tested
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content_tags1,500 trials in five blocks of 300 — length of the trial list each subject completed
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content_tags32 priming conditions ... with 20 items in each — design size: crossings of lexicality, prime modality, target modality and lag, with items per cell
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content_tags1.3% ofRTs / 6.2% ofRTs — proportion of responses discarded as outliers and as errors respectively
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