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An electrophysiological investigation of indirect semantic priming
Author(s) -
Kreher Donna A.,
Holcomb Phillip J.,
Kuperberg Gina R.
Publication year - 2006
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.1469-8986.2006.00460.x
Subject(s) - n400 , psychology , priming (agriculture) , event related potential , semantic similarity , semantic memory , context (archaeology) , response priming , cognitive psychology , similarity (geometry) , word (group theory) , cognition , lexical decision task , neuroscience , natural language processing , linguistics , artificial intelligence , computer science , paleontology , philosophy , botany , germination , image (mathematics) , biology
In two experiments, direct and indirect semantic priming were measured using event‐related potentials. In Experiment 1, participants rated the relatedness between prime and target on a seven‐point scale. In Experiment 2, participants simply read the primes and targets as they monitored for a semantic category in probe filler items. Significant direct and indirect N400 priming effects were observed in both experiments. In Experiment 1, the indirect N400 priming effect remained significant when indirectly related and unrelated word pairs were matched for participants' explicit relatedness judgments. In both experiments, the indirect N400 priming effects were preserved when indirectly related and unrelated word pairs were matched on more global and objective measures of semantic similarity. These findings are discussed in the context of current theoretical models of semantic memory and semantic priming.