Priming effects in word-fragment completion are independent of recognition memory.

Subjects saw a list of 96 words. They were tested 1 hr. later and 7 days later for (a) recognition of words encountered in the study list, and (b) their ability to complete graphemic word fragments such as A A IN with appropriate words, some of which had appeared in the study list. Performance on the frag-ment-completion task was primed (facilitated) by the appearance of the target words in the earlier list, but the observed priming effects were independent of recognition memory in two ways: (a) Although recognition accuracy was greatly diminished over the 7-day retention interval, priming effects were unchanged, (b) Priming effects were as large for the words identified as "new" in the im-mediately preceding recognition test as they were for the words identified as "old.", Priming effects in word-fragment completion may be mediated by a cog- nitive system other than episodic and semantic memory.

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