Two experiments examined effects of aging on implicit and explicit memory for novel visual objects. Implicit memory was assessed with an object decision task in which subjects indicated whether briefly exposed drawings represented structurally possible or impossible objects. Explicit memory was assessed with a yes-no recognition task. On the object decision task, old and young subjects both sho...

R. Ratcliff and G. McKoon (1995) describe 7 experiments that led them to conclude that priming of possible but not impossible objects on the object decision task introduced by D.L. Schacter, L.A. Cooper, & S.M. Delaney (1990) is attributable to explicit memory processes that offset a bias to call studied objects "possible." On the basis of this point, Ratcliff and McKoon (1995) claim to have un...

Using data from a behavioral structural priming experiment, we test two competing theoretical approaches to argument structure, which attribute different configurations to (in)transitive structures. These approaches make different claims about the relationship between unergatives and transitive structures selecting either a DP complement or a small clause complement in structurally unambiguous ...

Using the structural priming paradigm, the present study explores predictions made by the implicit prosody hypothesis (IPH) by testing whether an implicit prosodic boundary generated from a silently read sentence influences attachment preference for a novel, subsequently read sentence. Results indicate that such priming does occur, as evidenced by an effect on relative clause attachment. In par...

Three experiments investigated the hypothesis that power increases an action orientation in the power holder, even in contexts where power is not directly experienced. In Experiment 1, participants who possessed structural power in a group task were more likely to take a card in a simulated game of blackjack than those who lacked power. In Experiment 2, participants primed with high power were ...

representations that capture the similarities between these sentences. Production priming has only recently been used to study the nature of children’s linguistic abstractions. Some researchers have found evidence for abstract structural priming in threeand four-year-old children (Huttenlocher et al. 2004, Song & Fisher 2004). Others have not (Gamez et al. 2005, Savage et al. 2003). Recently we...

to investigate the effect of on-farm seed priming and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in different amounts of phosphate fertilizer on emergence, yield and yield components of a semi-mid maturity corn hybrid (es-sensor), an experiment was conducted at the research station of agriculture college, bu-ali sina university in 2012 in a factorial randomized complete block design with three replications, ...