Title: Repetition priming and automaticity: Common underlying mechanisms?
Abstract: Repetition priming and automaticity are both consequences of prior presentations. This article draws theoretical and empirical parallels between them, arguing that they result from a common mechanism, namely, the storage and retrieval of representations of individual exposures to specific items, or instances. Theoretically, repetition priming is viewed as the first few steps on the way to automaticity. Empirically, repetition priming and automaticity are shown to share three major characteristics: (a) The speed of processing increases as a power function of the number of exposures to a specific stimulus, (b) the benefit from repeated exposures is specific to individual items, and (c) the benefit is based on underlying associations between stimuli and the interpretations given to them in the context of specific experimental tasks.
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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