The perceptual priming phenomenon in amnesia

@article{Cermak1985ThePP,
  title={The perceptual priming phenomenon in amnesia},
  author={Laird S. Cermak and Nancy L. Talbot and Karen Michele Chandler and Lynn Reale Wolbarst},
  journal={Neuropsychologia},
  year={1985},
  volume={23},
  pages={615-622}
}
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This study contributes to recent evidence that implicit memory can support the rapid acquisition of novel verbal and nonverbal information by demonstratingceptual priming for novel nonverbal materials is independent of the structures damaged in amnesia.
Priming deficits in amnesia: Now you see them, now you don't
  • A. Ostergaard
  • Psychology
    Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • 1999
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The rate with which perceptual information becomes available was manipulated in 2 word naming experiments and it is argued that word priming does not represent a memory function that is spared in amnesia.
Perceptual and conceptual priming in amnesic and alcoholic patients
New-Association Priming of Word Identification in Normal and Amnesic Subjects
Levels of Processing and Amnesia Affect Perceptual Priming in Fragmented Picture Naming
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The results confirm that when a reliable implicit memory test is used amnesia and levels of processing can both be shown to affect implicit memory performance and that functional dissociations between explicit and implicit memory tests may be the consequence of a methodological artifact.
Word priming during and after transient global amnesia: A case report
Abstract Many studies have shown relative preservation of word priming in subjects with mild amnesia, but some impairment in severe amnesia. This calls into question the degree of separation between…
Intact priming of words and nonwords in amnesia
Amnesic patients and control subjects studied words and nonwords and were then given a perceptual identification test involving briefly presented new (i.e., unstudied) and old (i.e., previously…
Priming arithmetic facts in amnesic patients
Dissociations between Word Priming Effects in Normal Subjects and Patients with Memory Disorders: Multiple Memory Systems or Retrieval?
  • A. Ostergaard
  • Psychology
    The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology
  • 1994
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It is argued that the complex pattern of priming effects obtained is best explained by the characteristics of the retrieval cues provided in the tasks, and, generally, that such characteristics may determine whether or not experimental variables will affect measured priming.
Indirect measures of memory in a duration-judgement task are normal in amnesic patients
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