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Two experiments tested the effectiveness of priming on word-fragment completion when the priming operation consisted of the presentation of target words in the instructions for the fragment-completion task. Reliable priming effects were obtained in both experiments. The second experiment also examined the influence of case change of printed materials on the extent of priming effects. No simple outcome occurred, as the effects of case change or constancy were not symmetrical with respect to upper- and lowercase.
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A report of this research was presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Society, May 1990, Los Angeles, California.
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Madigan, S., McDowd, J. & Murphy, D. Facilitating word-fragment completion with hidden primes. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 29, 189–191 (1991). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335231
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