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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Priming Effect"”.
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A strategy to study pathway cross-talks of cells under repetitive exposure to stimuli
… in intricate cell responses, among which the priming effect has been extensively studied in monocytes and macrophages as it plays an unambiguously crucial role in immunological protection against pathogen infection. Priming basically describes the phenomena that host cells can launch a …
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Legacy Effects of Long-term Manure Applications on Soil-derived Nitrous Oxide Emissions
… manure applications would produce a legacy (or priming) effect that would result in enhanced N2O emissions following the changeover to a more readily available nitrogen source and that this effect would be relatively short-lived. The impacts of long-term manure application and change in …
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Subliminal priming as a task-characteristic artifact
Demonstrations of subliminal priming rely on a dual task design: A target identification task in which the priming effect is measured, and a prime identification task in which visibility of the primes is assessed. The validity of this design relies on the critical assumption that the estimates of …
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Lonely Consumers: When, How, and Why Does Loneliness Influence Consumer Behavior?
… experimenters can obtain a successful loneliness priming effect. Across three experiments, I demonstrate that the same loneliness primes produce different loneliness responses based on the availability of cognitive resources. Specifically, participants who are cognitively depleted tend to rely on …
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The influence of lateralized stressors on cardiovascular regulation and perception in high and low hostile men
… predicted that high-hostile men would evidence a priming effect in that a left-ear bias would be detected after the nonverbal fluency task but not the verbal fluency task. This was indeed the case. However, interestingly, the low-hostile men also displayed a priming effect at the left ear during …
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Implicit learning as a mechanism for syntactic acquisition and processing: Evidence from syntactic priming.
… that infer knowledge from input? Syntactic priming offers an experimental paradigm that can test different theories of syntactic acquisition. Presenting a prime sentence of a particular syntactic structure (e.g., the passive: the swimmer was eaten by a crocodile) tends to increase the …
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Implicit learning as a mechanism for syntactic acquisition and processing: Evidence from syntactic priming.
… that infer knowledge from input? Syntactic priming offers an experimental paradigm that can test different theories of syntactic acquisition. Presenting a prime sentence of a particular syntactic structure (e.g., the passive: the swimmer was eaten by a crocodile) tends to increase the …
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Mechanisms of Spoken Word Recognition and Memory Encoding Studied through Competitor Priming
… and memory encoding by using a competitor priming paradigm - prior presentation (priming) of a competitor spoken word (e.g. hijack) is followed by the presentation of a similar sounding word sharing the same initial segments (e.g. hygiene). Consistent with the Bayes rule, the prior …
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Lexico-semantic processing in adult monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) - English (L2) Speakers
… via two main approaches: The classic semantic priming paradigm in naming tasks and free recall tasks which take into account the growing body of research on the Age of Acquisition (AoA) effects in semantic processing and organisation. The Russian orthography has a unique writing system which is …
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Semantic Priming with Art
The purpose of this study is to understand the effect of viewing art on cognitive processes. This thesis uses a well-established priming paradigm to examine how people respond to styles of art with varying degrees of unexpectedness (realism, surrealism, and abstraction). Sixty-one participants …
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Culture's Influence on Experienced and Remembered Emotions
… schema that was made salient showed a cultural priming effect. Study 2 further examined the effects of cultural salience on emotions. Culture's influence on the memory of emotions was further unpacked by examining whether cultural salience influenced memories of emotions at the episodic level or …
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The attentional cost of feature-based inhibition: When ignoring distraction impairs selection
… awareness. In addition, I extend the negative priming effect to conditions far more complex than previous research has suggested is possible. This not only improves its ecological validity, but also reveals a strong similarity between negative priming and inhibitory carry-over effects of …
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Processing Speed for Action and Semantic Memory
… for Experiments 1 and 2 showed a significant priming effect for affordances (i.e. affordance primed objects were responded to faster than objects primed with non-associate, as well as a significant effect of accuracy for affordance primed objects. Experiment 3 results showed a marginally …
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Import and decomposition of dissolved organic carbon in pre-dams of drinking water reservoirs
… conditions. Further, the occurrence of aquatic priming was investigated, which has been proposed as a potential process facilitating the microbial decomposition of stable allochthonous DOC within the pelagic zone. To study organic carbon cycling under different hydrological conditions, …
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The influence of leaf litter and plants on soil respiration before, during and after a severe drought
… change. Large-scale droughts may have a huge effect on ecosystem carbon storage but despite the importance of drought events, their effect on soil carbon dynamics are less well understood. The above-below ground linkages that affect soil dynamics in forested areas during drought and …
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Firefighters: attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that contribute to high-risk behaviors
… firefighters. To examine if attitudes have an effect on risk-taking intentions, the Theory of Planned Behavior by Ajzen (TPB; 1988, 1991, 2001) was applied. A questionnaire and scenarios were developed to assess the TPB. Further interest was if emotion-laden stimuli moderate firefighters’ …
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Plant root contributions to the carbon balance of a changing agricultural Midwest
… space in a restored prairie. To determine the effect of climate change on soil C in conventional row crop agriculture, I measured root and soil respiration under soybeans and maize grown under elevated temperature (ambient + ~2 °C) and elevated CO2 (+200 ppm) for three years, then used a …
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A comparison of German and British therapists’ explicit and implicit reasoning about white and non-white clients – a vignette study
… the complete sample, as well as indicators for a priming effect in participants assigned to ‘Condition Caucasian’. The IAT study replicated previous research findings of implicit pro-white bias and the inconsistency between the tested implicit and the self-reported explicit bias within a therapist …
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Effects of blockade of muscarinic receptors in the ventral tegmental area : attenuation of cocaine reward, but enhancement of locomotor activity and dopamine overflow in the nucleus accumbens
… to the ventral tegmental area in the rewarding effects of cocaine. Bilateral intracranial injections of the muscarinic receptor antagonist atropine into the ventral tegmental area attenuated the rewarding effects of intravenous cocaine self-administered on either fixed ratio or progressive ratio …
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Exploring the bidirectional interface between stress and innate immunity: a focus on glucocorticoid and TLR4-MyD88 signalling
… also identified. Studies 2 and 3 explored the effects of glucocorticoid signalling on innate immune function in immunocompetent cells. In these 2 studies, BV2 microglia-like cells, RAW264.7 macrophage-like cells and adult primary microglia were utilised. Study 2 demonstrated a biphasic innate …
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