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-	== ~~External links~~ (~~studies that focus~~ of perceptual priming)==	+	== References ==
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		+	Wiggs, et al. (1998). Properties and mechanisms of perceptual priming. Cognitive neuroscience. 8(227-233)
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		+	Bowers et al. (2003). In Search of Perceptual Priming in a Semantic Classification Task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Vol. 29, No. 6, 1248–1255.

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		+	== What is Perceptual Priming? ==
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		+	Perceptual priming refers to activating particular associations in memory just before a
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		+	responsive behavior takes place. In other words, it is the method used to get the mind
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		+	ready to respond in a particular manner. One important property of priming is that there
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		+	tends to be a higher positive correlation when the priming and stimulus presentation
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		+	occurs in the same sensory mode. For example, a visual priming stimulus is given, then
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		+	the presentation of a visual stimulus will produce a better performance than a auditory
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		+	stimulus.
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		+	In a sense, perceptual priming can be used to synthesize a participant to the presentation
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		+	of the same or similar stimulus at a later time. If participants read a list of words that
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		+	includes the word table and then given a list of prefixes and asked to write the first word
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		+	they think of, they will write the word table when the stimulus prefix tab is presented.
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		+	Participants may also show priming effects on the word chair when primed with the word
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		+	table due to the strong relationship between the two objects.
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		+	== Importance for neuropsychology ==
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		+	It is important to consider that amnesic and blind sight patients show signs of a
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		+	perceptual priming effect even though they have no recollection of seeing the priming
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		+	stimulus. This could also be true for normal participants if a priming stimulus is flashed
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		+	rapidly so that the participant is unaware of the priming before an actual stimulus
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		+	presentation. The fact that the visual information gets into the brain without the
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		+	conscience experience of seeing the priming stimulus hints at different pathways for
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		+	visual stimuli in the brain.
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		+	== External links (studies that focus of perceptual priming)==

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