Associative and semantic priming effects occur at very short stimulus-onset asynchronies in lexical decision and naming

Prior research has found significant associative/semantic priming effects at very short stimulus-onset asynchronies (SOAs) in experimental tasks such as lexical decision, but not in naming tasks (however, see Lukatela and Turvey, 1994). In this paper, the time course of associative priming effects w...

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Published inCognition Vol. 62; no. 2; pp. 223 - 240
Main Authors Perea, Manuel, Gotor, Arcadio
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.02.1997
Elsevier Science
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Adult
Associative priming
Associative Processes
Attention
Cognition
Conditioning
Decision Making
Female
Humans
Linguistics
Male
Masking
Mental Recall
Naming
Paired-Associate Learning
Psycholinguistics
Reaction Time
Reference Values
Semantic Memory
Semantic Processing
Semantics
Spanish
Word Recognition
Words
Associative priming
Semantic memory
Masking
Denomination
Semantic relation
Memory/Memory ;Remembering/Memory;Remembering
Verbal selection
Psycholinguistics
Reaction Time
Priming
Lexical association
Cognition
Word recognition
Cognitive strategy
Experimental study
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ISSN0010-0277
1873-7838
DOI10.1016/S0010-0277(96)00782-2

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Summary:Prior research has found significant associative/semantic priming effects at very short stimulus-onset asynchronies (SOAs) in experimental tasks such as lexical decision, but not in naming tasks (however, see Lukatela and Turvey, 1994). In this paper, the time course of associative priming effects was analyzed at several very short SOAs (33, 50, and 67 ms), using the masked priming paradigm ( Forster and Davis, 1984), both in lexical decision (Experiment 1) and naming (Experiment 2). The results show small—but significant—associative priming effects in both tasks. Additionally, using the masked priming procedure at the 67 ms SOA, Experiments 3 and 4, shows facilitatory priming effects for both associatively and semantically (unassociative) related pairs in lexical decision and naming tasks. That is, automatic priming can be semantic. Taken together, our data appear to support interactive models of word recognition in which semantic activation may influence the early stages of word processing. © 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
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ISSN:0010-0277
1873-7838
DOI:10.1016/S0010-0277(96)00782-2