title: Physiological evidence that a masked unrelated intervening item disrupts semantic priming: implications for theories of semantic representation and retrieval models of semantic priming.
abstract: Event-related potentials were recorded in a paradigm where an unrelated word was interposed between two related words. In one condition, the intervening item was masked and in another condition it was not. The N400 component indicated that priming of the related word was disrupted by the intervening item whether it was masked or not. The data are interpreted to be inconsistent with retrieval models of priming.
authors.affiliation: The City College of the City University of New York, 138th Street at Convent Avenue, New York 10031, USA. monterey@bcn.net
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Deacon
authors.forename: Jillian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grose-Fifer
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hewitt
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shelley-Tremblay
authors.forename: Chien-Ming
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D010470:Perceptual Masking / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012016:Reference Values; D012660:Semantics