TY - JOUR
T1 - Specificity of priming
T2 - A cognitive neuroscience perspective
AU - Schacter, Daniel L.
AU - Dobbins, Ian G.
AU - Schnyer, David M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (D.L.S and D.M.S.) and National Institute on Aging (D.L.S.). We thank C. Moore for help with prepatation of the manuscript and S. Slotnick for comments.
PY - 2004/11
Y1 - 2004/11
N2 - Priming is a nonconscious form of memory that involves a change in a person's ability to identify, produce or classify an item as a result of a previous encounter with that item or a related item. One important question relates to the specificity of priming - the extent to which priming reflects the influence of abstract representations or the retention of specific features of a previous episode. Cognitive neuroscience analyses provide evidence for three types of specificity: stimulus, associative and response. We consider empirical, methodological and conceptual issues that relate to each type of specificity, and suggest a theoretical perspective to help in guiding future research.
AB - Priming is a nonconscious form of memory that involves a change in a person's ability to identify, produce or classify an item as a result of a previous encounter with that item or a related item. One important question relates to the specificity of priming - the extent to which priming reflects the influence of abstract representations or the retention of specific features of a previous episode. Cognitive neuroscience analyses provide evidence for three types of specificity: stimulus, associative and response. We consider empirical, methodological and conceptual issues that relate to each type of specificity, and suggest a theoretical perspective to help in guiding future research.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=8344238175&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/nrn1534
DO - 10.1038/nrn1534
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15496863
AN - SCOPUS:8344238175
SN - 1471-003X
VL - 5
SP - 853
EP - 862
JO - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
JF - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
IS - 11
ER -