Repetition priming: Is music special?

2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 1347-1375 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Bigand ◽  
B. Tillmann ◽  
B. Poulin-Charronnat ◽  
D. Manderlier
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Environmental Sounds ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Preceding Context ◽  
Target Repetition ◽  
Musical Function

Using short and long contexts, the present study investigated musical priming effects that are based on chord repetition and harmonic relatedness. A musical target (a chord) was preceded by either an identical prime or a different but harmonically related prime. In contrast to words, pictures, and environmental sounds, chord processing was not facilitated by repetition. Experiments 1 and 2 using single-chord primes showed either no significant difference between chord repetition and harmonic relatedness or facilitated processing for harmonically related targets. Experiment 3 using longer prime contexts showed that musical priming depended more on the musical function of the target in the preceding context than on target repetition. The effect of musical function was decreased, but not qualitatively changed, by chord repetition. The outcome of this study challenges predictions of sensory approaches and supports a cognitive approach of musical priming.

Inflectional and Derivational Morphology in the Mental Lexicon: Symmetries and Asymmetries in Repetition Priming

1992 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Schriefers ◽  
A. Friederici ◽  
P. Graetz
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Mental Lexicon ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Lexical Organization ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
Complex Forms ◽  
Complex Words ◽  
Prime Target

Using a repetition priming paradigm, the interrelations between morphologically related words in the mental lexicon were examined in two experiments. In contrast to most previous studies, in which morphologically complex words occur as primes and stems as targets, derivationally and inflectionally complex forms were fully crossed in prime–target pairs. Experiment 1 showed asymmetries in the pattern of priming effects between different inflectional forms of German adjectives. Such asymmetries are problematic for any theory that assumes that all members of an inflectional paradigm share one entry in the mental lexicon. Experiment 2 contrasted derivational and inflectional variants of the same stems used in Experiment 1. Once again, there were same clear asymmetries in the pattern of priming effects. The implications of these results for models of lexical organization of inflectional and derivational morphology are discussed.

Perceptual and Conceptual Priming of Environmental Sounds

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 3241-3253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annett Schirmer ◽  
Yong Hao Soh ◽  
Trevor B. Penney ◽  
Lonce Wyse
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Composition ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Environmental Sounds ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Conceptual Priming ◽  
Target Sound ◽  
Conceptual Processing ◽  
Sonic Environment ◽  
Prime Target ◽  
Conceptual Relationship

It is still unknown whether sonic environments influence the processing of individual sounds in a similar way as discourse or sentence context influences the processing of individual words. One obstacle to answering this question has been the failure to dissociate perceptual (i.e., how similar are sonic environment and target sound?) and conceptual (i.e., how related are sonic environment and target?) priming effects. In this study, we dissociate these effects by creating prime–target pairs with a purely perceptual or both a perceptual and conceptual relationship. Perceptual prime–target pairs were derived from perceptual–conceptual pairs (i.e., meaningful environmental sounds) by shuffling the spectral composition of primes and targets so as to preserve their perceptual relationship while making them unrecognizable. Hearing both original and shuffled targets elicited a more positive N1/P2 complex in the ERP when targets were related to a preceding prime as compared with unrelated. Only related original targets reduced the N400 amplitude. Related shuffled targets tended to decrease the amplitude of a late temporo-parietal positivity. Taken together, these effects indicate that sonic environments influence first the perceptual and then the conceptual processing of individual sounds. Moreover, the influence on conceptual processing is comparable to the influence linguistic context has on the processing of individual words.

Repetition priming effects dissociate between miniature eye movements and induced gamma-band responses in the human electroencephalogram

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 2425-2433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Hassler ◽  
Uwe Friese ◽  
Ulla Martens ◽  
Nelson Trujillo-Barreto ◽  
Thomas Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Gamma Band ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Human Electroencephalogram

Repetition priming of face recognition

1987 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Ellis ◽  
Andrew W. Young ◽  
Brenda M. Flude ◽  
Dennis C. Hay
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Prior Exposure ◽  
Partial Replication ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Physical Similarity ◽  
The Face

Three experiments investigating the priming of the recognition of familiar faces are reported. In Experiment 1, recognizing the face of a celebrity in an “Is this face familiar?” task was primed by exposure several minutes earlier to a different photograph of the same person, but not by exposure to the person's written name (a partial replication of Bruce and Valentine, 1985). In Experiment 2, recognizing the face of a personal acquaintance was again primed by recognizing a different photograph of their face, but not by recognizing the acquaintance from that person's body shape, clothes etc. Experiment 3 showed that maximum repetition priming is obtained from prior exposure to an identical photograph of a famous face, less from a similar photograph, and least (but still significant) from a dissimilar photograph. We argue that repetition priming is a function of the degree of physical similarity between two stimuli and that lack of priming between different stimulus types (e.g., written names and faces, or bodies and faces) may be attributable to lack of physical similarity between prime and test stimuli. Repetition priming effects may be best explained by some form of “instance-based” model such as that proposed by McClelland and Rumelhart (1985).

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