WHO PRIMED ROGER-RABBIT - AN INVESTIGATION OF PRIMING BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL ITEMS

Three experiments are reported which examine priming effects operating in the recognition of familiar objects and their names. The stimuli e mployed allowed the direct comparison of these effects with results pr eviously obtained from face recognition research by utilizing a subjec t-response task common to both areas. Semantic (associative) priming w as investigated in Expts 1 and 2 while identity (repetition) priming w as examined in Expt 3. The three experiments supported the idea that p arallels could be drawn between the recognition of objects and faces.