AGING AND FEATURE-SPECIFIC PRIMING OF FAMILIAR AND NOVEL STIMULI

English and Turkish words in 2 fonts were presented to young and elder ly Ss, and memory was assessed directly with recognition tests and ind irectly with reading time. Young and elderly Ss showed repetition prim ing on English words and showed larger priming effects when the study and test fonts were the same rather than different. Elderly Ss were im paired, however, on recognition of feature-specific information in com parison with young Ss. When Turkish words were shown, only young Ss ev idenced priming, despite recognition performance above chance for both young and elderly Ss. A 2nd experiment replicated these findings with different materials.