Spataro Pietro, Mulligan Neil W, Longobardi Emiddia, Rossi-Arnaud Clelia
Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, University of Rome Sapienza, Italy.
Exp Psychol. 2012;59(1):22-9. doi: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000121.
Barry, Hirsh, Johnston, and Williams (2001) found that Age-of-Acquisition (AoA) interacted with repetition priming in the picture naming task (greater priming for late- than for early-acquired words), and proposed that AoA might affect the stage of access to lexical-phonological representations. The present experiment examined the possibility that AoA may influence the retrieval of visual-orthographic information, by studying its effects in the Word-Fragment Completion Task (WFCT). Results showed that the overall percentages of correct completion were greater for early- than for late-acquired words, while repetition priming was higher for late- than for early-acquired items. Furthermore, the interaction between AoA and WFCT priming remained significant even when the fragments were exposed for only 4 s, reducing possible contributions from phonological and semantic processes. These findings suggest that AoA can affect implicit memory by facilitating the retrieval of the orthographic properties of the studied words.
巴里、赫什、约翰斯顿和威廉姆斯（2001年）发现，在图片命名任务中，习得年龄（AoA）与重复启动相互作用（对后期习得的单词的启动作用大于早期习得的单词），并提出AoA可能会影响词汇-语音表征的通达阶段。本实验通过研究其在单词片段完成任务（WFCT）中的作用，检验了AoA可能影响视觉正字法信息检索的可能性。结果表明，早期习得单词的正确完成总体百分比高于后期习得的单词，而后期习得项目的重复启动高于早期习得项目。此外，即使片段仅呈现4秒，AoA与WFCT启动之间的相互作用仍然显著，减少了语音和语义过程可能产生的影响。这些发现表明，AoA可以通过促进对所学单词正字法属性的检索来影响内隐记忆。
