Priming and Human Memory Systems
- 19 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 247 (4940), 301-306
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.2296719
Abstract
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.Keywords
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