Cm. Macleod et Mej. Masson, PRIMING PATTERNS ARE DIFFERENT IN MASKED WORD IDENTIFICATION AND WORD-FRAGMENT COMPLETION, Journal of memory and language, 36(4), 1997, pp. 461-483
Indirect tests of remembering have revealed two different patterns of
priming following generation and reading tasks: (1) read words produce
more priming than generated words, which produce little or no priming
relative to new words, and (2) both read and generated words show rel
iable and equivalent priming. In a series of six experiments using bot
h mixed and blocked presentation of encoding tasks, we confirmed that
the word fragment completion task reliably produced the first pattern
of results whereas we found that the masked word identification task a
lmost always produced the second pattern of results. Only when three d
ifferent tasks were presented in a blocked design during encoding did
the identification task lead to less priming for generated than for re
ad words. We conclude that the brief presentation of a whole word in t
he masked word identification task makes contact with an initial inter
pretive encoding that includes records of conceptual as well as percep
tual operations performed during encoding. (C) 1997 Academic Press.