“…Studies in which priming in healthy older adults has been examined have found either intact priming (Howard, Fry, & Brune, 1991;Java & Gardiner, 1991;Light, La Voie, Valencia-Laver, Albertson Owens, & Mead, 1992;Light & Singh, 1987;Mitchell,1989;Moscovitch,1982) or small age-related deficits (Chiarello & Hoyer, 1988;Davis et al, 1990;Fleischman & Gabrieli, 1998;Hultsch, Masson, & Small, 1991;Schacter, Church, & Osowiecki, 1994), suggesting that this phenomenon, unlike deliberate retrieval, is largely immune to aging. Findings that overall repetition priming effects are relatively constant across age groups do not, however, unequivocally support the assumption that the processes that produce these effects are entirely age insensitive.…”