Implicit memory is inferred from repetition priming effects in tasks such as word identification, word fragment completion, and perceptual recognition with masking or brief exposures. In this experiment, we explored whether the visual word and object repetition priming effects can be reflected by features of ERP and whether visual word repetition priming differs from visual object repetition pr...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to design a short-term memory test, to describe quantitative performance in typically language developing children and to verify the relationship between the non-words repetition and oral phonological measure. METHODS The participants included 136 typically language developing children aged from 3 years to 6 years and 11 months old in this study, who were...

BACKGROUND It has been reported that patients with amnesia have a reduced effect of word repetition upon the late positive component of the event related potential (ERP), which peaks at around 600 ms after word onset. OBJECTIVE To study a word repetition ERP paradigm in subjects with mild cognitive impairment. SUBJECTS 14 patients with mild cognitive impairment (mean mini-mental state exami...

We briefly review the considerable evidence for a common ordering mechanism underlying both immediate serial recall (ISR) tasks (e.g. digit span, non-word repetition) and the learning of phonological word forms. In addition, we discuss how recent work on the Hebb repetition effect is consistent with the idea that learning in this task is itself a laboratory analogue of the sequence-learning com...

A previous time-series study showed that rapidly repeating a single-word version of a negative self-referential thought reduced the discomfort and the believability associated with that thought. The present parametric study examined whether durations of word repetition were differentially effective in altering the discomfort and believability of negative self-referential thought. In two studies...

Previous neuroimaging studies in the visual domain have shown that neurons along the perceptual processing pathway retain the physical properties of written words, faces, and objects. The aim of this study was to reveal the existence of similar neuronal properties within the human auditory cortex. Brain activity was measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging during a repetition primin...

A growing body of evidence indicates that human word learning, nonword repetition, and immediate serial recall (ISR) abilities are related in some way (e.g., Baddeley et al., 1998). It seems clear why word learning might be related to nonword repetition: every known word was once a nonword to a particular learner, so greater facility in processing nonwords should lead to greater facility in eve...

Magnetoencephalography was used in a passive repetition priming paradigm. Words in two frequency bins (high/low) were presented to the participants auditorily. Participants' brain responses to these stimuli were analyzed using synthetic aperture magnetometry. The main finding of this study is that single-word repetition of low-frequency word pairs significantly attenuated the post-second word e...