Compound-Cue Models

Compound-cue models of priming were proposed independently by Ratcliff and McKoon (1988) and by Dosher and Rosedale (1989). The compound-cue model is simply a statement about the content of retrieval cues. The claim is that the cue to memory contains the target item and elements of the surrounding context. In a lexical decision task, for example, this context could include the prime, or even words occurring before the prime.