Priming and Recognition of Human Motion Patterns

Left-right orientation and size incongruence is known to affect recognition memory for objects but not object priming. In the present study, the effects of study-test changes in left-right orientation and size on old-new recognition decisions and long-term priming of human motion patterns were examined. Experiment 1 showed effects of orientation incongruence on both recognition and priming. Experiment 2 showed an effectof size incongruence on recognition memory but not on priming. It is suggested that the representations of human actions that underlie human motion priming are on a level that preserve orientation, possibly because of the importance of dynamic information for perceiving motion patterns or because encoding of human motion is governed by a body schema (e.g. Reed & Farah, 1995). In contrast, low-level metric information such as size is inconsequential to priming because priming involves identification of shape, which is not affected by size transformations. The effect of size on recognition me...

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