lmplicit Remembering: The Fluency of Reprocessing

Abstract

Implicit remembering is remembering without intention.Priming is the benefit that occurs on a memory test due to a prior related study episode, without requiring awareness of the study-test relation.Using several different implicit tasks, we first provide evidence that priming in implicit remembering relies on both conceptual and perceptual processingc.We then argue that priming is produced by greater fluency of processing for previously encoded as opposed to new stimuli.We present evidence that this fluency is not the result of improved perception, but rather derives from automatic recruitment of memory for similar processing episodes.