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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"semantic priming"”.
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The Relationship of Attention and Semantic Priming: Semantic Priming Is Conditionally Automatic
… examines the relationship of attention and semantic priming. A debate exists in the semantic priming literature over whether automatic semantic priming does or does not require attention. This debate is limited by the view that automatic processes necessarily exclude the involvement of …
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Semantic Priming with Art
… 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 completed the priming task. The results replicated the classic priming effect for …
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Is semantic priming influenced by capacity?
… demands of the lexical-decision task, and 2) priming found with the keypress task is greater than the priming found with the vocal tasks due to facilitatory activation of the left hemisphere, leading to enhanced right-hand responding for expected stimuli.
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Hemispheric Differences in Semantic Priming Examined Across Handedness Groups
… study investigates hemispheric differences in semantic priming across handedness groups. A lexical decision task was administered to 87 individuals, classified into handedness groups: consistent right-handers; consistent left-handers; and inconsistent-handers. Participants were presented with …
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Age-related differences in semantic priming : evidence from event-related brain potentials
The goal of this study was to test whether semantic priming in response to a word that immediately follows a related sentence or single-word is age-invariant. This was done using the N400 event-related brain potential (ERP). N400 amplitude varies inversely with semantic priming (Kutas, 1980), and …
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Individual differences in hemispheric lateralization of language processing
… laterality: dichotic listening and lateralized semantic priming and their relation to sex, verbal and visual-spatial ability, gender identity, and personality.</p> <p>Eighty-nine adults (44 women, 45 men) were administered the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence, Bem Sex Role Inventory, …
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Reducing False Hearing In The Elderly: Variability Training In Meta-Audition
… Sommers: in prep) were a result of repetition or semantic priming. The results of that experiment revealed that repetition of semantically-associated pairs did not increase false hearing, which supported the notion that context effects were a result of semantic priming. Experiment 2 described two …
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Semantic structure of personal information
… decisions are earliest, followed by access to semantic information, followed by naming. To date, the stage involved in semantic decisions has received least attention. Thus, relatively little is known about how we store personal semantic information. More research into this stage is necessary …
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Effects of Minimal Group Identity on Processing of Evaluative Information
… members. Processing speed was measured through a semantic priming paradigm previously used with stereotyped primes and traits. It was predicted subjects would rate own group members higher than outgroup members. Additionally it was predicted that subjects' reaction times would be faster to …
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Lexico-semantic processing in adult monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) - English (L2) Speakers
The aim of the research was to examine lexico-semantic processes in monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) – English (L2) speaking adults. This has been achieved via two main approaches: The classic semantic priming paradigm in naming tasks and free recall tasks which take into account the …
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The nature of semantic memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease : evidence from event-related brain potentials and reaction time measures
The nature of semantic memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from event-related brain potentials and reaction time measures Semantic memory impairment is commonly observed in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT); however the nature of the impairment is unclear. Some …
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"What does ""it"" mean anyway? Examining the time course of semantic activation in reference resolution"
… pronoun leads the comprehender to reactivate the semantics of its antecedent. We examined this hypothesis by manipulating the concreteness of a noun antecedent and assessing whether an Event Related Potential (ERP) concreteness effect was elicited at a downstream pronoun. We observed a robust …
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Combinatorial semantics in the visual world: A representational account of real-time event processing
… combinatorial effects operating within novel semantic priming paradigms. These experiments demonstrate the combining of several pieces of semantic information (specifically, what certain items afford in terms of some form of interaction) from objects within simple visual scenes, and an account …
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DO STRATEGIC PRIMING PROCESSES DIFFER FOR CATEGORY VS. ASSOCIATIVE PRIMING? AN EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS STUDY OF PROACTIVE EXPECTANCY STRATEGIES.
An extension of Becker's 1980 semantic priming study challenges the Verification Model by proposing that there are two different priming processes, one at a perceptual level and one at a semantic level. Participants performed a lexical decision task with a category-dominant or associative-dominant …
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Effects of Contextual and Individual Difference Factors on Perceptions of Victims
… world beliefs, trauma exposure, and cognitive semantic associations) factors in relation to victim blame. Ingroup membership predicted greater character praise in females, while outgroup membership predicted greater praise in males. Victim praise was also greater when the environment was safe …
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The placebo effect: measurement by multiple methods
… supported. Major findings include an effect of semantic priming on placebo response mediated by condition (Deceptive versus Open Placebo), an unexpected negative relationship between Optimism and self-reported Health, and a physiological relationship between pain ratings and GSR data, which was …
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An investigation of automatic affective processing : behavioral correlates in schizophrenia and neural correlates in healthy adults
… comparison group (n = 28) completed an affective priming and cognitive priming task. Relative to controls, people with schizophrenia exhibited decreased affective priming but increased cognitive priming. In addition, decreased affective priming was associated with increased anhedonia. In contrast, …
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What Relationships Exist Between Words In The Lexical-Semantic Systems Of Toddlers?
… organised and complex interconnected network of semantic relationships which characterises a mature, adult lexical-semantic system. Since little is known about the word-word associations in infants that establish this network of meanings (Arias-Trejo & Plunkett, 2009), this thesis sought to, …
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Cognitive Accessibility of Racial Stereotypes, Beliefs, and Self-esteem in Black and White College Students
… 37 white - 14 male, 23 female) who performed a semantic priming task (Dovidio, Evans, and Tyler, 1986; Dovidio, Perdue & Gaertner, 1991) and completed questionnaires assessing selfesteem and racial beliefs. Findings. An internalization pattern of positive versus negative stereotypes emerged. …
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Learning new words: effects of meaning, memory consolidation, and sleep
… that consolidated novel words elicited faster semantic decisions than words learned just before testing, while Experiment 5 showed that cued recall of word forms is also enhanced over time. Experiments 6-7 refined these conclusions by using semantic priming paradigms, showing that novel word …
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