Graf et al. (1984)

The information that amnesic patients do not forget.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 10(1), 164-178

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Graf, P., Squire, L. R., & Mandler, G. (1984). The information that amnesic patients do not forget. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 10(1), 164-178. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.10.1.164

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Priming Memory Systems

Definition

What separates priming from explicit memory is the instruction, not the cue: given the same three-letter word stems, people told to complete them with the first word that comes to mind show priming, while people told to recall studied words are using conscious recollection
Neural substrate

Patients with amnesia were impaired on free recall, cued recall and recognition but normal on word-stem completion priming, which declined at a normal rate over about two hours, so priming does not depend on the brain regions damaged in amnesia