Italian norms for the spontaneous completion of three-letter word stems. A preliminary study
Researchers interested in the study of implicit (and, to a lesser degree, explicit) memory have frequently used word stem completion (WSC) to measure repetition priming in both healthy and clinical populations. In this task, participants are asked to complete each of several stems (e.g., ele__) with the first word that comes to mind (e.g., elephant). A key problem, however, is that the baseline completion rates of the stems corresponding to the target words must be known in advance, if the researcher want to maximize the possibility to detect sizable priming effects.