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Four experiments were conducted investigating the role of phonology in repetition priming. Experiment 1 used a cross-modal priming paradigm in which participants made semantic judgments about spoken words and then performed a visual stem completion task. In Experiments 2–4, both the primes and the test stems were presented visually. The results of the first three experiments revealed that priming transfers across interpretations of a homophone. That is, seeing or hearingweek primes bothweek andweak. The results of Experiment 4 showed that homophone priming cannot be attributed to the orthographic similarity of homophonic words. Together, these results indicate that repetition priming on a visual word completion task includes a phonological component.
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This research was supported by Grant HD-01994 from the National Institute of Child Health and Development to Haskins Laboratories.
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Rueckl, J.G., Mathew, S. Implicit memory for phonological processes in visual stem completion. Mem Cogn 27, 1–11 (1999). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03201208
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