Semantic priming in the pronunciation task: the role of prospective prime-generated expectancies.
In the relatedness proportion effect, semantic priming increases with an increase in the probability that a word prime will be followed by a semantically related word target. This effect has frequently been obtained in the lexical decision task but not in a pronunciation task. In the present experiment, relatedness proportion was manipulated in two pronunciation tasks, one with and one without nonword targets, using category names as primes. In both tasks, a relatedness proportion effect occurred for high-dominance category exemplars but not for low-dominance category exemplars. These results converge with recent lexical decision results in suggesting that semantic priming in pronunciation is affected by a prospective prime-generated expectancy that is modulated by the relatedness proportion.
Keefe
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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Neely
J H
JH
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D012660:Semantics; D012718:Set, Psychology