Relation between Implicit Memory and Lexical Processing

Park, Tae-Jin; 박태진

Abstract

This study compared the activation view with acquisition view of implicit memory by examining the priming of lexical and nonlexical components of Korean words. In Experiments 1-2, levels-of-processing(LOP) was manipulated at encoding stage and subjects performed a word fragment completion(WFC : implicit memory) and a recognition(explicit memory) task in which the targets were meaning- and orthographically-related components or only orthographically-related components of the primes. The targets were word fragments of first two letters(beginning component) (Experiment I) or those of last two letters(ending component) (Experiment 2) in three-letters primes. The results indicated that LOP had a large effect on recognition but no effect on WFC. Also, priming was obtained for orthographically-related beginning components even though it was smaller than that for meaning-related beginning components in Experiment 1, and priming was obtained only for meaning-related ending components in Experiment 2. These results were replicated in Experiment 3 using a perceptual identification(PI) task. In Experiment 4 using a PI task in which the targets were orthographically-related nonword components, priming was obtained for beginning components. Both acquisition of new representations of nonlexical(orthographic) components and activation of preexisting lexical(meaning) components appear to contribute to priming.

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Vol.9 No.1

Relation between Implicit Memory and Lexical Processing

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The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology