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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 15, Issue 10, Pages 680-686Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00740.x
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R37 MH024600, R01 MH024600-31, MH24600, R01 MH024600] Funding Source: Medline
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Priming is an unconscious (nondeclarative) form of memory whereby identification or production of an item is improved by an earlier encounter. It has been proposed that declarative memory and priming might be related-for example, that conceptual priming results in more fluent processing, thereby providing a basis for familiarity judgments. In two experiments, we assessed conceptual priming and recognition memory across a 5-min interval in 5 memory-impaired patients. All patients exhibited fully intact priming in tests of both free association (study tent; at test, provide an association to canvas) and category verification (study lemon; at test, decide: Is lemon a type of fruit?). Yet the 2 most severely amnesic patients performed at chance on matched tests of recognition memory. These findings count against the notion that conceptual priming provides feelings of familiarity that can support accurate recognition judgments. We suggest that priming is inaccessible to conscious awareness and does not influence declarative memory.
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