Memory processes underlying long-term semantic priming

Was, Woltz, Hirsch · Memory & Cognition · 2019 · cognitive-psychology · 10.3758/s13421-018-0867-8 · record Was2019-memory-processes-underlying-long-term-semant
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long-term semantic priming semantic memory representations memory for prior cognitive operations word meanings category membership The memory process supporting long-term priming shifts with how the relevant part of semantic memory is organised associatively Because categories are hierarchically organised under a shared label, a prime trial and a target trial repeat the very same label-retrieval and comparison operation, and that repetition is what speeds the target Synonyms and antonyms have no superordinate label to re-retrieve, so priming there can only come from incremental strengthening of the abstract semantic features the words share Operation-specific facilitation appears only in the category domain because of the hierarchical structure of category knowledge semantic priming rate of correct responses (RCR) expectancy prime condition evaluation operation assignment of stimulus set prime-target lag response time percentage of errors ANOVA power analysis t-test paired-samples t-tests effect size confidence interval mean Mean RT and percentage of errors behavioural-experiment

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limitationsThe evaluation operations manipulated in the two experiments were not equivalent, so the operations themselves - not the semantic content - may have produced the difference in priming.
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sensesTWO RIVAL MECHANISMS, TWENTY YEARS APART, STATED AS ALTERNATIVES: `Quotation withheld.` One says the concept got stronger; the other says the subject remembers what they did. They are not degrees of the same account - one is about the representation and the other about the act - and until this paper the literature had been arguing which
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sensesTHE DESIGN POINT IS THE SAME ONE erb2019 MAKES, ONE RECORD APART: `Quotation withheld.` The earlier literature compared mechanisms across experiments differing in more than the variable of interest. Two consecutive records now say a body of results is uninterpretable because a confound was not held constant - erb2019 about associative-priming overlap, this about task differences - and neither is a critique paper. Both are ordinary empirical papers that had to clear the ground before they could ask anything
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sensesAND THE ASYMMETRY IS EXPLAINED RATHER THAN NAMED - A CATEGORY HAS A LABEL AND A SYNONYM PAIR DOES NOT. Evaluating whether roses and carnations share a category activates `flower`, and the next trial repeats that same evaluation against that same label; but `Quotation withheld.` There is no operation to repeat, so only strengthening is left. The mechanism is derived from the structure of the material rather than fitted to the result, which is what makes it a prediction for the next study rather than a description of this one
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direction on the measure: increases · strength of the relation: 0.9 · note: THE OTHER MECHANISM, on the same sentence and at the same weight, and the pair is the point. This one holds for CATEGORY MEMBERSHIP only - and the fourth sense explains why, from the structure of the material: a category has a label that the same evaluation is repeated against, and a synonym pair has nothing to repeat. Recording either edge without the other would turn a dissociation into a claim about the phenomenon as a whole, which is the thing this paper exists to refute.
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content_tagsAcross two structurally matched experiments, long-term semantic priming turned out to rest on different memory processes depending on the kind of semantic content being processed.
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content_tagsPriming of word meanings rested on strengthened abstract semantic representations, whereas priming of category membership rested on memory for the cognitive operations performed earlier.
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content_tagsIn the category experiment, facilitation was larger when the prime trial required the same evaluation (exemplar or feature) as the target trial.
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content_tagsCategory priming survived, though reduced, when prime and target operations differed, indicating a general rise in availability of category information on top of the operation-specific component.
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content_tagsIn the word-meaning experiment, matching versus mismatching the synonym/antonym evaluation across prime and target made no difference to the size of priming.
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content_tagsBoth experiments produced semantic priming that persisted over an average of seven unrelated intervening trials.
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content_tagsPriming measured in response rate was larger for category comparisons than for word-meaning comparisons.
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content_tagsStrategic processing did not produce larger priming effects as the experiment progressed.
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content_tagsF(1,84) = 62.18 — overall category priming effect in Experiment 1, primed versus unprimed target trials
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content_tagsF(1,84) = 34.53 — effect of whether the prime trial used the same evaluation operation as the target trial, in Experiment 1
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content_tagsF(1,84) = 5.97, p = .017 — overall word-meaning priming effect in Experiment 2, much smaller than the category effect
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content_tagsSeventy-two — category stimulus groups built for Experiment 1, each with target stimuli and two prime sets
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content_tagst(89) = 6.42, d = .57 — priming effect for category evaluations in the first six trials, compared with d = .20 in the last six
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