Short-term implicit memory: Visual, auditory, and cross-modality priming — TEI-tagged view

McKone, Dennis · 2000 · cognitive-psychology · doi:10.3758/bf03212991 · full text at the source · TEI xml · tagged edition · index · concepts · authors
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phenomenonshort-term repetition priming— “Short-tenn implicit memory was examined for mixed auditory (A) and visual (V) stimuli.”
claim-typemechanism— “These modality differences suggest that short-tenn priming has a perceptual locus, with the phonological lexicon maintaining stimuli active longer than the ortho graphic lexicon and treating pseudowords as potential words.”
method — evidence— “In lexical decision, words and nonwords were repeated at lags of 0, 1, 3, and 6 intervening trials, in four prime target combinations (yV, VA, AV, AA).”
mechanismbecause 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— “The phonologicallexi con, therefore, has need to hold items assigned pseudo word status active for as long as those assigned word sta tus: In continuous speech, many "nonwords" will later turn out to be real words.”mechanisms[0]
mechanismbecause 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— “The orthographic lexicon can afford, therefore, to rapidly discard a non word when the next item is presented.”mechanisms[1]
mechanismeach 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— “The results sug gest that each stimulus undergoes obligatory recoding into the alternative perceptual form (i.e., orthographic to phonological and, more interestingly, vice versa), and that a secondary trace of this recoding can contribute to short-term priming.”mechanisms[2]
replicates McKone (1995)— “First, the results of McKone (1995) were replicated when both presentations were visual, although the list used here contained mixed auditory and visual stimuli.”claim_relations[0]
extends Kirsner and Smith (1974)— “Our experiment was similar to that ofKirsner and Smith, but specifically targeted the region in which the lag X lexicality interaction is found with visual presentation.”claim_relations[1]
contradicts Kirsner and Smith (1974)— “Few studies have used auditory targets, but we note that our small ef fect appears to conflict with Kirsner and Smith's (1974) large cross-modal reduction in long-term priming in lex ical decision (83 vs. - 14 msec, for words at lags 15 and 63).”claim_relations[2]
senseshort-term implicit memory - a name chosen by ANALOGY OF DURATION with explicit short-term memory, not by a claim about mechanism— “We refer to this effect as short-term implicit memory, where the label short-term was chosen to reflect its similarity in duration to that of standard ex plicit short-term or "working" memory”senses[0]
senseshort-term implicit memory - and the commitment the name would carry is DECLINED in the next sentence: separate stores are explicitly not assumed— “We do not assume that different stores sub serve short- and long-term priming. Our preferred theo retical interpretation is of two mechanisms operating within a common system”senses[1]
sensepriming - operationalised as the difference from the mean of ALL unprimed trials of matching lexicality and modality, after the first-versus-second-presentation definition was rejected— “Instead, we followed the procedure of Kirsner and Smith (1974) in choosing the baseline for priming to be the mean of all unprimed trials of the appropriate lexicality and modal ity.”senses[2]
senseimplicit memory - automatic retrieval of the target's initial presentation, defined by CONTRAST with the deliberate conscious retrieval required for explicit memory— “where implicit memory refers to auto matic retrieval of the target's initial presentation and is contrasted with the deliberate conscious retrieval re quired for explicit memory”senses[3]
controllexical decision times below 300 or above 1,700 msec excluded, along with incorrect responses - 1.3 per cent of reaction times — held — rules out anticipations and lapses of attention dominating a mean, with the exclusion rate reported so a reader can see how much was removed— “Lexical decision times were excluded if they fell below 300 or above 1,700 msec (1.3% ofRTs), or ifan incorrect response was given to either presentation of the item (6.2% ofRTs).”controls[0]
edgeimplicit memory —contrasted-with→ explicit memoryconcept_edges[0]
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for which uselimitation — 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 familiaritylimitations[2]
for which uselimitation — 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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replicationreplicated
limitationBecause 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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limitationThe 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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limitationThe locus assumed in the authors' own earlier explanations is stated to have no direct evidence, and a confound is named in the same sentence.
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limitationThe 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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findingWith 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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findingShort-term priming lasted longer when both presentations were spoken than when both were written.
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findingAuditory 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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findingSwitching modality between prime and target reduced short-term priming but never abolished it, for words and nonwords alike.
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findingCross-modal short-term priming persisted to lag 1 for word targets but disappeared after one intervening item for nonwords.
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findingWeak cross-modal short-term priming for words and nonwords indicates recoding between perceptual forms.
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findingModality mismatch significantly reduced priming for visual targets (31 vs. 2 msec) but not for auditory targets (36 vs. 27 msec).
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findingError rates fell from first to second presentation (words 11.3% to 6.0%; nonwords 5.9% to 5.7%).
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findingUnprimed lexical decisions were roughly 320-350 msec faster for written than for spoken items.
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findingFirst-presentation responses were consistently faster when the preceding trial was in the same modality.
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findingThe 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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quantityV = 620 msec, A = 966 msec — unprimed lexical decision times for visual versus auditory words
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quantityF(3,63) = 2.76, MSe = 2,416, P < .05 — the lag by lexicality interaction for same-modality visual priming
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quantity31 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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quantity11.3% to 6.0% — word error rates on first versus second presentation
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quantity22 — number of subjects tested
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quantity1,500 trials in five blocks of 300 — length of the trial list each subject completed
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quantity32 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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quantity1.3% ofRTs / 6.2% ofRTs — proportion of responses discarded as outliers and as errors respectively
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variablelag (independent)
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variablelexical status (independent)
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variableerror rate (dependent)
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variableorder of priming conditions (control)
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definitionshort-term implicit memory
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definitionlong-term implicit memory
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definitionpseudoword
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definitionorthographic lexicon
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definitionphonological lexicon
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conceptimplicit memory
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conceptshort-term implicit memory
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conceptbaseline for priming
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ANOVA F as written: repeated measures two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)
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t-test t as written: t(21) = 3.57
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mean as written: the mean of all unprimed trials
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