Stem-completion priming in Alzheimer's disease: The importance of target word articulation

• Published in: Neuropsychologia Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 63 - 75
• Main Authors: Downes, John Joseph, Davis, Eric J., De Mornay Davies, Paul, Perfect, Timothy J., Wilson, Ken, Mayes, Andrew R., Sagar, H.J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 1996
• Subjects: Aged; Alzheimer Disease - psychology; Alzheimer's disease; Humans; Neuropsychological Tests; Reading; stem-completion priming; target words; Verbal Behavior; Visual Perception; stem-completion priming; Alzheimer's disease; target words

Stem-completion priming performance in patients with Alzheimer's type dementia (DAT) was explored in three experiments in which both the standard repetition priming effect and a novel indirect form of priming, cohort priming, were measured. In the first experiment, in which study stimuli were w...