Masked priming has a short and somewhat controversial history. When used as a tool to
study whether semantic processing can occur in the absence of conscious awareness …

This article analyzes the relationship between skill learning and repetition priming, 2 implicit
memory phenomena. A number of reports have suggested that skill learning and repetition …

The power function is treated as the law relating response time to practice trials. However,
the evidence for a power law is flawed, because it is based on averaged data. We report a …

Word frequency is an important predictor of word-naming and lexical decision times. It is,
however, confounded with contextual diversity, the number of contexts in which a word has …

By common definition, emergence means “to come forth from concealment or
obscurity”(Webster's Dictionary). In the context of this book, emergence also implies “without …

This is an innovative and engaging companion to the language of memory research. It
consists of over 130 entries, bound within a coherent conceptual framework. Each entry …

A major area of research in memory and amnesia concerns the item specificity of implicit
memory. In this paper we address several issues about the nature of implicit memory …

There is general agreement that the effect of frequency on lexical access time is roughly
logarithmic, although little attention has been given to the reason for this. The authors argue …

Pictures were shown with superimposed word distractors of high and low frequency. Low-
frequency distractors produced greater interference on picture naming than did high …

Previous research suggests that target templates are stored visual working memory and
used to guide attention during visual search. However, observers can search efficiently even …