Host: The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
I presented a pair of Kanji-characters and asked participants to be able to accept the pair as a Japanese idiom or not. When a pair was presented at two trials divided by 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 trials of other pairs, error and latency became smaller and shorter at second trial, respectively. This result means that the activation of an idiom has been held after long delay. In another analysis, I calculated primary rate which each character appeared at the first position of idioms. High primary rate of the character at second position in idioms increased error rate, but the primary rate was independent with the effect of repeated presentation.
