FACILITATION AND INTERFERENCE IN INDIRECT IMPLICIT MEMORY TESTS AND IN THE PROCESS DISSOCIATION PARADIGM - THE LETTER INSERTION AND THE LETTER DELETION TASKS
Em. Reingold, FACILITATION AND INTERFERENCE IN INDIRECT IMPLICIT MEMORY TESTS AND IN THE PROCESS DISSOCIATION PARADIGM - THE LETTER INSERTION AND THE LETTER DELETION TASKS, Consciousness and cognition, 4(4), 1995, pp. 459-482
This paper introduced the letter insertion and letter deletion tasks.
in these tasks participants are presented with letter strings and are
instructed to insert or delete a letter to create a word. Experiment 1
demonstrated facilitation priming and established these tasks as sens
itive indirect measures of memory. Experiments 2 and 3 demonstrated in
terference priming effects. In Experiment 4 the process dissociation p
aradigm (Jacoby, 1991) was applied to investigate the contributions of
automatic and consciously controlled processes to performance on the
letter insertion task. In addition, performance in the exclusion condi
tion demonstrated an interference effect caused by automatic retrieval
. Potential applications for the letter insertion and letter deletion
tasks are discussed. (C) 1995 Academic Press, Inc.