{"pk":49475,"title":"Who notices object repeats? Individual differences in inner experience influence repetition priming","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Category labels such as `dog' and `green' appear to induce more categorical representations--highlighting category diagnostic features and helping to distinguish category members from non-members. Here we investigate whether covert language use has a similar effect by taking advantage of natural variation in people's reported use of inner speech. To measure categoricality, we use a repetition-priming task in which people make a semantic judgment of repeated images. We find a robust repetition effect of categories such that people are faster to respond to a cat if they have seen a previous image of a cat. These differences in inner speech are not associated with differences in repetition priming, but interacted in complex ways with differences in visual imagery and susceptibility to a verbal interference task.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Concepts and categories; Language and thought; Representation"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gf9k64k","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kira","middle_name":"","last_name":"Breeden","name_suffix":"","institution":"UW-Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Gary","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lupyan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin - Madison","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49475/galley/37437/download/"}]}