Sl. Thompson-schill et Jde. Gabrieli, Priming of visual and functional knowledge on a semantic classification task, J EXP PSY L, 25(1), 1999, pp. 41-53
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
Several lines of evidence suggest that semantic memory may be organized acc
ording to domain-specific attributes (e.g., visual or functional). Repetiti
on priming both within and across these semantic knowledge domains was meas
ured in 4 experiments to determine whether retrieval of one attribute can o
ccur independently of retrieval of other attributes. The authors found a st
rong same-attribute priming advantage that persisted even when the classifi
cation task differed between study and test. Also evident was a small but c
onsistent cross-attribute priming effect. Cross-attribute priming was not a
ffected by changes in the modality of the test item, suggesting that the ef
fect reflects the repetition of conceptual, and not perceptual, processes.
On the basis of these results, the authors suggest that conceptual priming
reflects the recapitulation of both domain-specific and nonspecific semanti
c processing.