Editorial: The Role of the Distinctions between Identification/Production and Perceptual/Conceptual Processes in Implicit Memory: Findings from Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

摘要

The present collection of papers represents recent work on repetition priming. In a standard repetition priming experiment, participants first encode materials such as words or pictures into memory. Later, they are asked to process those materials together with new, unencoded materials of a similar nature in a task that makes no reference to earlier encoding. For example, after studying a word such as grape, the probability of using grape as a response to the corresponding word stem (GRA_____) is enhanced under instructions to complete the stem with the first word that comes to mind. Moreover, relative to unencoded words, participants are more successful at identifying encoded words when presented at perceptual threshold, and faster at verifying that encoded words are exemplars of superordinate categories.