ABSTRACT
Repetition priming effects are reviewed in this chapter as a function of the stimulus attribute changed between encoding and test. The amount of priming is found to depend on this attribute; it is virtually nil across a change in language, substantially reduced across modality, and largely complete across case and voice. It is argued that these effects and others in the literature are consistent with a multilevel model of perceptual analysis. The usefulness of this model in predicting performance in an incidental attribute-retention task is also explored. A review of the literature reveals attribute memory to be inversely related to priming effects; memory for language is superior to modality, which is superior to both case and voice. This inverse relationship is also found to apply to the effect of intentionality on attribute recall. From these data it is argued that a record of the perceptual analysis of a word both underlies repetition priming across attributes and is accessible to retrieval processes concerned with memory for detail.
