Semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming occurs across multiple sources: Implications for autobiographical remembering.

Mace, McQueen, Hayslett, Stalely, and Welch (Memory & Cognition, 47, 299-312, 2019) demonstrated that the activation of semantic memories leads to the activation of autobiographical memories. In that study, the semantic processing of concept words (e.g., garden) was shown to prime related autobiogra...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 48; no. 6; pp. 931 - 942
Main Authors: Mace, John H., Unlu, Merve
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Published: Springer Nature Aug2020
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        Task performance
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      ab: Mace, McQueen, Hayslett, Stalely, and Welch (Memory & Cognition, 47, 299-312, 2019) demonstrated that the activation of semantic memories leads to the activation of autobiographical memories. In that study, the semantic processing of concept words (e.g., garden) was shown to prime related autobiographical memories (e.g., personal memories involving garden) on voluntary and involuntary autobiographical memory tasks. Our goal in the current study was to replicate such semantic-to-autobiographical priming effects, and show that they can be extended to a wider set of stimuli than reported in Mace et al. In Experiment 1, semantic-to-autobiographical priming was obtained on a measure of involuntary autobiographical memory (the vigilance task) following the processing of concept words in insolation and within the context of a sentence. In Experiment 2, semantic-to-autobiographical priming was again observed to occur with the vigilance task, but in this instance it occurred following the processing of both linguistic (words) and nonlinguistic (pictures) stimuli. The results of each of these experiments supports the idea that semantic-to-autobiographical activations occur within a wide variety of contexts (e.g., in language, perception, etc.). The implications of the results for autobiographical remembering are discussed.
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