Auditory priming for nonverbal information: Implicit and explicit memory for environmental sounds

Author(s): Schacter, D. L.

Journal/Book: Conscious Cogn. 1995; 4: 525B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495. Academic Press Inc Jnl-Comp Subscriptions. 440-458.

Abstract: Three experiments examined repetition priming for meaningful environmental sounds (e.g., clock ticking, tooth brushing, toilet flushing, etc.) in a sound stem identification paradigm using brief sound cues. Prior encoding of target sounds together with their associated names facilitated subsequent identification of sound stems relative to nonstudied controls. In contrast, prior exposure to the names alone in the absence of the environmental sounds did not prime subsequent sound stem identification performance at all (Experiments 1 and 3). Explicit and implicit memory were dissociated such that sound stem cued recall was higher following semantic than nonsemantic encoding, whereas sound priming was insensitive to manipulations of depth of encoding (Experiments 2 and 3). These results extend the findings of long-term repetition priming into the auditory nonverbal domain and suggest that priming for environmental sounds is mediated primarily by perceptual processes. , Inc.

Note: Article DL Schacter, Harvard Univ, Dept Psychol, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Keyword(s): WORD-STEM COMPLETION; FRAGMENT COMPLETION; INDIRECT TESTS; IDENTIFICATION; MODALITY; RECOGNITION; INVARIANCE; COMMON

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