Properties and mechanisms of perceptual priming
Current Opinion in NeurobiologyPublished 1 April 1998Open access
Cheri L. Wiggs, Alex Martin
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The behavioral and neurophysiological effects of perceptual priming show graded changes with multiple repetition, are resistant to manipulations of particular stimulus attributes, and occur independently of awareness.
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Recent evidence suggests that the behavioral phenomenon of perceptual priming and the physiological finding of decreased neural responses with item repetition have similar properties. Both the behavioral and neurophysiological effects show graded changes with multiple repetition, are resistant to manipulations of particular stimulus attributes (e.g. size and location), and occur independently of awareness. These and other recent findings (e.g. from functional brain imaging in humans) suggest that perceptual priming may be mediated by decreased neural responses associated with perceptual learning.
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