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An electrophysiological study of cross‐modal repetition priming
Author(s) -
Holcomb Phillip J.,
Anderson Jane,
Grainger Jonathan
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00348.x
Subject(s) - n400 , psychology , repetition priming , repetition (rhetorical device) , audiology , priming (agriculture) , electrophysiology , interval (graph theory) , event related potential , electroencephalography , communication , cognition , neuroscience , mathematics , linguistics , lexical decision task , medicine , botany , germination , combinatorics , philosophy , biology
Few studies have focused on language processing across modalities. Two experiments examined between‐modality interactions across three prime–target intervals (0, 200, and 800 ms) in a cross‐modal repetition priming paradigm. Event‐related potentials were recorded to auditory targets following visual primes (Experiment 1) or visual targets following auditory primes (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1 robust repetition effects were found for auditory targets as early as 100 ms, and continued through the N400 epoch. Moreover, these visual–auditory repetition effects were large across all three prime–target intervals although they onset 200 ms later at the shortest interval. In Experiment 2 repetition effects to visual targets started later (at 200 ms), but also offset relatively later (∼1000 ms). These auditory–visual repetition effects were both smaller overall and absent for the two shortest prime–target intervals during the typical N400 window.