Open AccessFast priming of grammatical decisions: repetition and transposed-word priming effects
Author(s) -
Jonathan Mirault,
Mathieu Declerck,
Jonathan Grainger
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
royal society open science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 51
ISSN - 2054-5703
DOI - 10.1098/rsos.211082
Subject(s) - priming (agriculture) , sentence , lexical decision task , word (group theory) , repetition (rhetorical device) , prime (order theory) , sequence (biology) , word recognition , repetition priming , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , psychology , speech recognition , linguistics , mathematics , biology , cognition , combinatorics , reading (process) , neuroscience , philosophy , botany , germination , genetics
We used the grammatical decision task to investigate fast priming of written sentence processing. Targets were sequences of 5 words that either formed a grammatically correct sentence or were ungrammatical. Primes were sequences of 5 words and could be the same word sequence as targets, a different sequence of words with a similar syntactic structure, the same sequence with two inner words transposed or the same sequence with two inner words substituted by different words. Prime-word sequences were presented in a larger font size than targets for 200 ms and followed by the target sequence after a 100 ms delay. We found robust repetition priming in grammatical decisions, with same sequence primes leading to faster responses compared with prime sequences containing different words. We also found transposed-word priming effects, with faster responses following a transposed-word prime compared with substituted-word primes. We conclude that fast primed grammatical decisions might offer investigations of written sentence processing what fast primed lexical decisions have offered studies of visual word recognition.