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This articlereports three experiments that investigate the role ofcontext in repetition priming using a lexical decision task. The experiments show that repetition priming is either eliminated or significantly reduced if a change in context also alters the perceived sense of a nonhomographic target word. If perceived sense is not altered, a change in context is inconsequential. This points to the important role played by perceived sense in repetition priming. An explanation within a sense-specific activation framework is proposed in preference to a modified processing view.
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This research was supported in part by a grant from the Australian Research Grants Scheme to the third author.
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Bainbridge, J.V., Lewandowsky, S. & Kirsner, K. Context effects in repetition priming are sense effects. Memory & Cognition 21, 619–626 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197194
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