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Priming and Human Memory Systems

Tulving, Endel, Schacter, Daniel L.·1990·Science

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Priming is a nonconscious form of human memory, which is concerned with perceptual identification of words and objects and which has only recently been recognized as separate from other forms of memory or memory systems. It is currently under intense experimental scrutiny. Evidence is converging for the proposition that priming is an expression of a perceptual representation system that operates at a pre-semantic level; it emerges early in development, and access to it lacks the kind of flexibility characteristic of other cognitive memory systems. Conceptual priming, however, seems to be based on the operations of semantic memory.

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  • Intertrial priming is a powerful way by which current selection can be biased toward stimuli that have been selected in the very recent past, irrespective of other concurrently active attentional control processes.

    “For instance, (intertrial) priming is a powerful way by which current selection can be biased toward stimuli that have been selected in the very recent past (e.g., on the previous trial) irrespective of other concurrently active attentional control processes (Maljkovic & Nakayama, 1994; Tulving & Schacter, 1990).”

    From Selection history: How reward modulates selectivity of visual attention. (2018) · cites this paper as Tulving & Schacter, 1990

  • Priming describes how a stimulus or feature that has been repeatedly attended in the recent past is more efficiently selected and identified on the current trial.

    “One widely known influence of memory processes on attentional selection is priming, which describes how a stimulus (feature) that has been repeatedly attended in the recent past is more efficiently selected and identified on the current trial (Maljkovic & Nakayama, 1994; Tulving & Schacter, 1990).”

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Authors
Tulving, E., & Schacter, D. L.
Affiliations
University of Toronto (CA)
Venue
Science
Published
1990-01-19
Volume
247
Issue
4940
Pages
301-306
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2047431989
Cited by
2,595
References
99
Citations by year
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FWCI
55.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01ag008441-30)
  • National Institute on Aging (1 RO1 AGO8441-01)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
Keywords
priming, perceptual identification, perceptual representation, semantic memory, conceptual priming, memory systems, cognitive development
MeSH terms
Amnesia, Cognition, Dyslexia, Humans, Memory, Neuropsychology, Perception, Semantics, Visual Perception

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