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Retrieval from long-term memory was investigated in two experiments in which S was shown a title and asked to say the surname of the author. Some of the author names had been studied in a previous paired-associate task in which they were paired with different titles than those used in the test phase, i.e., the names were primed. The results indicated that very little priming is necessary to produce considerable facilitation in author naming. When the frequency of priming exposures was small an increase in the frequency of either study or test trials in the priming phase resulted in increased facilitation. Study trials during priming appeared to produce greater facilitation than did attempts at retrieval during priming, and the effects of the two kinds of priming trials were additive.
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1. This research was supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Grant No. NGR-05-020-036. It was conducted while the first author was a research associate at the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, Stanford University.
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Hopkins, R.H., Atkinson, R.C. Degree of priming in the retrieval of authors’ names from long-term memory. Psychon Sci 12, 399–400 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331373
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