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Mathematics and number theory

a whole number greater than 1 with no whole-number divisors except 1 and itself.

Euclid's Elements (Book VII, ca. 300 BCE) defined a prime as a number measured by a unit alone, that is, a whole number greater than 1 with no whole-number divisors except 1 and itself, and a later book proved that the primes are unending. Hardy and Wright's An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers (2008) restates and extends this idea as the foundation of modern number theory. Here the referent is a property of a whole number, tested by division, and it has nothing in common with an hour of prayer or a cue shown to a viewer beyond the shared five letters.[1][2]

Unit
A single integer greater than 1 whose only whole-number divisors are 1 and itself
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Established by primality testing, from trial division to modern deterministic and probabilistic algorithms

Cognitive psychology

the first, preceding stimulus whose reading speeds recognition of a related stimulus presented shortly after.

Meyer and Schvaneveldt's 1971 Facilitation in recognizing pairs of words showed that reading one word speeds recognition of a related word presented shortly after, the effect now called priming, and the first, preceding stimulus is the prime. Neely's 1977 Semantic priming and retrieval from lexical memory separated the automatic and the attention-driven parts of this facilitation. The referent is a stimulus that shifts how a later one is processed, measured in milliseconds of response time, and it bears no relation to a prime number or to an hour of the Divine Office.[3][4]

Unit
A single preceding stimulus, such as a word, image, or concept, shown before a target
Recovery means
The facilitation fades as time and intervening stimuli increase
Measured by
Gauged as faster or more accurate responses to the target, in reaction time or accuracy, against an unprimed baseline

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number3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructsstimulus3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructspriming4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

  1. Euclid. (1908). The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements (T. L. Heath, Trans., Vol. 2). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published ca. 300 BCE)
  2. Hardy, G. H., & Wright, E. M. (2008). An introduction to the theory of numbers (6th ed.). Oxford University Press.
  3. Meyer, D. E., & Schvaneveldt, R. W. (1971). Facilitation in recognizing pairs of words: Evidence of a dependence between retrieval operations. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 90(2), 227–234. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0031564
  4. Neely, J. H. (1977). Semantic priming and retrieval from lexical memory: Roles of inhibitionless spreading activation and limited-capacity attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 106(3), 226–254. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.106.3.226

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