Specificity of priming: a cognitive neuroscience perspective
Nature reviews. NeurosciencePublished 20 October 2004
Daniel L. Schacter, Ian G. Dobbins, David M. Schnyer
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Cognitive neuroscience analyses provide evidence for three types of specificity: stimulus, associative and response, and a theoretical perspective is suggested to help in guiding future research.
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Priming is a nonconscious form of memory that involves a change in a person's ability to identify, produce or classify an item as a result of a previous encounter with that item or a related item. One important question relates to the specificity of priming - the extent to which priming reflects the influence of abstract representations or the retention of specific features of a previous episode. Cognitive neuroscience analyses provide evidence for three types of specificity: stimulus, associative and response. We consider empirical, methodological and conceptual issues that relate to each type of specificity, and suggest a theoretical perspective to help in guiding future research.
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