Ray Suchismita
Center of Alcohol Studeis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA.
J Gen Psychol. 2008 Apr;135(2):133-48. doi: 10.3200/GENP.135.2.133-150.
Low semantically similar exemplars in a category demonstrate the category-priming effect through priming of the category (i.e., exemplar-category-exemplar), whereas high semantically similar exemplars in the same category demonstrate the semantic-priming effect (i.e., direct activation of one high semantically similar exemplar by another). The author asked whether the category- and semantic-priming effects are based on a common memory process. She examined this question by testing the time courses of category- and semantic-priming effects. She tested participants on either category- or semantic-priming paradigm at 2 different time intervals (6 min and 42 min) by using a lexical decision task using exemplars from categories. Results showed that the time course of category priming was different from that of semantic priming. The author concludes that these 2 priming effects are based on 2 separate memory processes.
一个类别中语义相似度低的样例通过类别启动（即样例-类别-样例）来展示类别启动效应，而同一类别中语义相似度高的样例则展示语义启动效应（即一个语义相似度高的样例直接激活另一个）。作者询问类别启动效应和语义启动效应是否基于共同的记忆过程。她通过测试类别启动效应和语义启动效应的时间进程来研究这个问题。她使用来自类别的样例，通过词汇判断任务，在两个不同的时间间隔（6分钟和42分钟）对参与者进行类别启动或语义启动范式测试。结果表明，类别启动的时间进程与语义启动不同。作者得出结论，这两种启动效应基于两个独立的记忆过程。
