Citation

Brown AS, Neblett DR, Jones TC, Mitchell DB. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 1991; 17(3): 514-525.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275-0442.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1829475

Abstract

Transfer effects in repetition priming were found with both picture and word naming, but varied with the type of prime list. Unmixed lists of word or picture primes produced equivalent intra-modal and cross-modal repetition priming in both picture-naming (Experiment 1) and word-naming (Experiment 5) tasks. However, mixing word and picture primes resulted in greater intra-modal than cross-modal priming for both picture-naming (Experiment 2) and word-naming (Experiment 6) tasks. This mixed-list difference between intra-modal and cross-modal priming was reduced by blocking prime types at input (Experiment 3). These findings suggest that differences in priming as a function of prime stimulus format should be cautiously interpreted when mixed prime lists are used.

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