The masked semantic priming effect is task dependent: Reconsidering the automatic spreading activation process.

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 1062-1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca de Wit ◽  
Sachiko Kinoshita
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Activation Process ◽  
Spreading Activation ◽  
Semantic Priming Effect

Semantic Priming Effect of Metaphor Constituent Terms

2003 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Nakamoto
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
The Other ◽  
Class Inclusion ◽  
Inclusion Model ◽  
Semantic Priming Effect ◽  
The Asymmetry

Camac and Glucksberg reported there was no priming effect between constituent terms of a metaphor and argued that there was no prior similarity or association between the constituents. However, their study had several limitations. An important one was that they neglected the asymmetry of metaphor constituent terms. The purpose of this study is to replicate their experiment under the condition in which one of the constituents preceded the other. The experiment was conducted with Japanese participants using Japanese metaphoric sentences as stimuli. The results showed that the decision was facilitated if the vehicle served as prime and the topic served as target. In contrast, if the topic preceded the vehicle, no priming effect was found. These results are discussed in terms of the class inclusion model proposed earlier by Glucksberg and Keysar.

scholarly journals Multi-talker background and semantic priming effect

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Dekerle ◽  
Véronique Boulenger ◽  
Michel Hoen ◽  
Fanny Meunier
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Semantic Priming Effect

scholarly journals SPAML: Semantic Priming Across Many Languages

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Michelle Buchanan ◽  
Kelly Cuccolo ◽  
Nicholas Alvaro Coles ◽  
Aishwarya Iyer ◽  
Neil Anthony Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Word Pair ◽  
Adaptive Sampling ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Unrelated Word ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Response Latencies ◽  
Semantic Priming Effect

Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. These studies provide evidence of cognitive underpinnings of the structure and organization of semantic representation in both healthy and clinical populations. In this registered report, we propose to create a large database of semantic priming values, alleviating the sample size and limited language issues with previous studies in this area. Consequently, this database will include semantic priming data across multiple languages using an adaptive sampling procedure. This study will test the size of semantic priming effect and its variability across languages. Results will support semantic priming when reduced response latencies are found for related word-pair conditions in comparison to unrelated word-pair conditions. Differences in semantic priming across languages will be supported when priming effect confidence intervals do not overlap.

scholarly journals Semantic Priming in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Subjects: Effect of Different Time of Presentation of Word-Pairs

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Guglielmi ◽  
Davide Quaranta ◽  
Ilaria Mega ◽  
Emanuele Maria Costantini ◽  
Claudia Carrarini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Healthy Subjects ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Semantic Knowledge ◽  
Stimulus Onset ◽  
Factorial Anova ◽  
Semantic Priming Effect ◽  
Time Of Presentation

Introduction: Semantic memory is impaired in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Two main hypotheses about this finding are debated and refer to the degradation of stored knowledge versus the impairment of semantic access mechanisms. The aim of our study is to evaluate semantic impairment in MCI versus healthy subjects (HS) by an experiment evaluating semantic priming. Methods: We enrolled 27 MCI and 20 HS. MCI group were divided, according to follow up, into converters-MCI and non converters-MCI. The semantic task consisted of 108 pairs of words, 54 of which were semantically associated. Stimuli were presented 250 or 900 ms later the appearance of the target in a randomized manner. Data were analyzed using factorial ANOVA. Results: Both HS and MCI answered more quickly for word than for non-word at both stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) intervals. At 250 ms, both MCI and HS experienced a shorter time of response for related-word than for unrelated words (priming effect), while only the converters-MCI subgroup lost the priming effect. Further, we observed a rather larger Cohen’s d effect size in non converters-MCI than in converters-MCI. Conclusion: Our data, and in particular the absence of a semantic priming effect in converters-MCI, could reflect the impairment of semantic knowledge rather than the accessibility of semantic stores in MCI individuals that progress to dementia.

Reversing the N400: event-related potentials of a negative semantic priming effect

Neuroreport ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (15) ◽  
pp. 1479-1482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Bermeitinger ◽  
Christian Frings ◽  
Dirk Wentura
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Semantic Priming Effect ◽  
Related Potentials

P242: Discriminate visual neglect from hemianopia by semantic priming effect: a clinical study

2014 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. S113
Author(s):  
S. Pagani ◽  
M. Balconi ◽  
M. Sozzi ◽  
S. Bianchi Marzoli ◽  
L. Melzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Study ◽  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Visual Neglect ◽  
Semantic Priming Effect

scholarly journals The Mechanism Underlying Backward Priming in a Lexical Decision Task: Spreading Activation versus Semantic Matching

1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothee J. Chwilla ◽  
Peter Hagoort ◽  
C.M. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Spreading Activation ◽  
Semantic Matching ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Manipulation Experiment

Koriat (1981) demonstrated that an association from the target to a preceding prime, in the absence of an association from the prime to the target, facilitates lexical decision and referred to this effect as “backward priming”. Backward priming is of relevance, because it can provide information about the mechanism underlying semantic priming effects. Following Neely (1991), we distinguish three mechanisms of priming: spreading activation, expectancy, and semantic matching/ integration. The goal was to determine which of these mechanisms causes backward priming, by assessing effects of backward priming on a language-relevant ERP component, the N400, and reaction time (RT). Based on previous work, we propose that the N400 priming effect reflects expectancy and semantic matching/ integration, but in contrast with RT does not reflect spreading activation. Experiment 1 shows a backward priming effect that is qualitatively similar for the N400 and RT in a lexical decision task. This effect was not modulated by an ISI manipulation. Experiment 2 clarifies that the N400 backward priming effect reflects genuine changes in N400 amplitude and cannot be ascribed to other factors. We will argue that these backward priming effects cannot be due to expectancy but are best accounted for in terms of semantic matching/integration.

General lexical slowing and the semantic priming effect: The roles of age and ability

1997 ◽  
Vol 96 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Myerson ◽  
Sandra Hale ◽  
Jing Chen ◽  
Bonnie Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Semantic Priming Effect

scholarly journals Heterogeneity in semantic priming effect with a lexical decision task in patients after left hemisphere stroke

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Candice Steffen Holderbaum ◽  
Letícia Lessa Mansur ◽  
Jerusa Fumagalli de Salles
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Left Hemisphere ◽  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Stimulus Onset ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Semantic Priming Effect ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Left Hemisphere Stroke

ABSTRACT Investigations on the semantic priming effect (SPE) in patients after left hemisphere (LH) lesions have shown disparities that may be explained by the variability in performance found among patients. The aim of the present study was to verify the existence of subgroups of patients after LH stroke by searching for dissociations between performance on the lexical decision task based on the semantic priming paradigm and performance on direct memory, semantic association and language tasks. All 17 patients with LH lesions after stroke (ten non-fluent aphasics and seven non aphasics) were analyzed individually. Results indicated the presence of three groups of patients according to SPE: one exhibiting SPE at both stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs), one with SPE only at long SOA, and another, larger group with no SPE.

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