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In this paper, we report two experiments on priming or transfer effects between two implicit memory tasks—solving anagrams and completing fragments. Substantial priming effects were found only when the solution words were primed as well, either by the experimenter or by means of the subject’s exposure to the item through having solved it. No evidence for test priming was found in the absence of repetition priming. Item difficulty across the tasks was highly correlated.
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Experiment 1 was part of an honors thesis completed by the first author.
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Polster, M.R., Winograd, E. No evidence of test priming between solving anagrams and completing word fragments. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 27, 303–306 (1989). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334610
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334610