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PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 28-39Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0014642
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aging; memory; episodic priming; semantic priming; speed-accuracy trade-off
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Two experiments compared automatic semantic and episodic priming effects in adult aging. In the 1st experiment, target words were semantically primed; in the 2nd experiment, targets were primed by repetition of semantically unrelated words. Both experiments involved a pronunciation task with response signals at fixed times following target onset. Consequently, priming was measured as improvement in the percentage of correct responses. Priming was also calculated with speed-accuracy measures of intercept and slope. Both types of priming effect were significant in the percentage correct and slope measures, but no age group differences were found. Furthermore, the magnitudes of the priming effects were equivalent. The age-resistant nature of semantic and episodic priming, as well as evidence for a common theoretical mechanism, is discussed.
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