The Masked Semantic Priming Effect Is Task Dependent: Reconsidering the Automatic Spreading Activation Process

Autor/inn/en	de Wit, Bianca; Kinoshita, Sachiko
Titel	The Masked Semantic Priming Effect Is Task Dependent: Reconsidering the Automatic Spreading Activation Process
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41 (2015) 4, S.1062-1075 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000074
Schlagwörter	Priming; Semantics; Language Processing; Classification; Undergraduate Students; Reaction Time; Foreign Countries; Statistical Analysis; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; Sprachverarbeitung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Reaktionsvermögen; Ausland; Statistische Analyse; Australien
Abstract	Semantic priming effects are popularly explained in terms of an automatic spreading activation process, according to which the activation of a node in a semantic network spreads automatically to interconnected nodes, preactivating a semantically related word. It is expected from this account that semantic priming effects should be routinely observed when the prime identity is veiled from conscious awareness, but the extant literature on masked semantic priming effects is notoriously mixed. The authors use the same prime--target pairs in the lexical decision task and the semantic categorization task and show that although masking the prime eliminates the semantic priming effect in lexical decision, reliable semantic priming effects are observed with both masked and unmasked primes in the semantic categorization task. The authors explain this task dependence in terms of their account of semantic priming effects based on notions of evidence accumulation and source confusion and support their account by means of reaction time distribution analyses. (As Provided).
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