The Relationship of Attention and Semantic Priming: Semantic Priming Is Conditionally Automatic

This dissertation 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 attention. The current experiments test the conditional automaticity hypothesis that automatic semantic priming is conditional upon attention, that subjects show semantic priming for attended primes, but not for unattended primes. Three experiments using a focused attention paradigm find support for this hypothesis, both at long (500 ms) and short (250 ms) stimulus onset asynchronies.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Boronat, Consuelo Beatriz

Contributors dc:contributor

• Logan, Gordon D.

• Psychology, Cognitive

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9912199

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82248