One example of semantic priming is the lexical (~dictionary) decision experiment. In this kind of experiment, observers see two strings of letters. The first string (the prime) is always a word. The second (the test stimulus) is sometimes a word, sometimes not.
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Priming (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Priming in psychology occurs when an earlier stimulus influences response to a later stimulus. For example, when a person reads a list of words including the word table , and is later asked to comp...
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Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge... ... The first section examines models of semantic priming,
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Visual words that are masked and presented so briefly that they cannot be seen may nevertheless facilitate the subsequent processing of related words, a phenomenon called masked priming1,2. It has been debated whether ... When subjects engage in an overt semantic comparison task with a clearly visible target numeral,
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CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles): A distributed attractor network is trained on an abstract version of the task of deriving the meanings of written words. When processing a word, the network starts from the final activity pattern of the previous word. ... 9 Priming and search processes in semantic memory:
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Associative semantic network dysfunction in thought-disordered schizophrenic patients: Direct evidence from indirect semantic priming. Biological Psychiatry, 34:864--877, 1993.; Home/Search...
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Category structure and semantic priming in retarded adolescents.; Weil CM, McCauley C, Sperber RD. This study was designed to investigate the internal structure of semantic categories in mentally retarded adolescents as reflected in naming times to pictures of common objects.
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However, recent investigations into the type of relationship needed to mediate the semantic priming effect have suggested that the prime and target must be close associates (e.g., Barry, Johnston, & ... Semantic priming of person recognition: Categorial priming may be a weaker form of the associative priming effect...
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A complementary way to investigate semantic memory in neuropsychology is by using the semantic priming paradigm. Here, semantic priming refers specifically to the modification of a stimulus processing behind the presentation of a related stimulus;
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Neuroimaging studies in healthy participants have implicated anterior temporal lobe regions and the fusiform gyrus in repetition priming and semantic priming. ... Neuroimaging studies in healthy participants have implicated anterior temporal lobe regions and the fusiform gyrus in repetition priming and semantic priming.
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