ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that in the context of a conceptualization task a repeated object representation is not accessed faster than on its first occurrence if verbal information strongly primes the depicted object. The contrary position implies that the system benefits from the repetition in any case because the familiarity with the perceptual data facilitates processing irrespective of the context. For both plausible and implausible verb-pictures sequences, only those were chosen which matched the predefined statistical range to occur as (in-)significant neighbors. In the case of plausible pictures, categorization times are identical irrespective of whether the picture occurs the first or the second time. Most importantly, only implausible objects are highly sensitive to a repetition whereas plausible objects are reacted to in the same time window no matter whether they are repeated or not.
