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The processes contributing to the durability of repetition priming in picture naming and its decline across a week were assessed in two experiments with Spanish—English bilinguals. In Experiment 1, both picture identification and word retrieval processes of picture naming exhibited facilitation after a week. Word retrieval priming declined substantially relative to a 10-min retention interval, but picture identification priming remained stable. In Experiment 2, word translation exhibited repetition priming after a week. Decreased word retrieval priming accounted for the attenuation of translation priming relative to a 10-min interval, whereas word comprehension priming remained stable. A linear process model was used to formalize and test key hypotheses and to clarify the influences of component processes and retention interval on repetition priming.
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This research was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant MH61765 to the first author. We thank Casey A. Gutierrez for his assistance with Experiment 2. Experiment 1 was completed as a senior honors thesis by the second author, who presented the results at the Llano Estacado Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference and at the Encuentro InterEstudiantil de Psicología del Estado de Chihuahua. The entire project was presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (2003).
Note—This article was accepted by the previous editorial team, when Colin M. MacLeod was Editor.
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Francis, W.S., Sáenz, S.P. Repetition priming endurance in picture naming and translation: Contributions of component processes. Memory & Cognition 35, 481–493 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193288
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