title: Co-occurrence frequency evaluated with large language corpora boosts semantic priming effects.
abstract: In recent decades, many computational techniques have been developed to analyse the contextual usage of words in large language corpora. The present study examined whether the co-occurrence frequency obtained from large language corpora might boost purely semantic priming effects. Two experiments were conducted: one with conscious semantic priming, the other with subliminal semantic priming. Both experiments contrasted three semantic priming contexts: an unrelated priming context and two related priming contexts with word pairs that are semantically related and that co-occur either frequently or infrequently. In the conscious priming presentation (166-ms stimulus-onset asynchrony, SOA), a semantic priming effect was recorded in both related priming contexts, which was greater with higher co-occurrence frequency. In the subliminal priming presentation (66-ms SOA), no significant priming effect was shown, regardless of the related priming context. These results show that co-occurrence frequency boosts pure semantic priming effects and are discussed with reference to models of semantic network.
authors.affiliation: a UMR 9193-SCALab-Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, University of Lille, CNRS , Lille , France.
authors.forename: Angèle
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brunellière
authors.affiliation: a UMR 9193-SCALab-Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, University of Lille, CNRS , Lille , France.
authors.forename: Laetitia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Perre
authors.affiliation: b CNRS, UMR 8163-STL-Savoirs Textes Langage, University of Lille , Lille , France.
authors.forename: ThiMai
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tran
authors.affiliation: a UMR 9193-SCALab-Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, University of Lille, CNRS , Lille , France.
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bonnotte
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D060865:Repetition Priming / Q000502:physiology*; D012660:Semantics; D012718:Set, Psychology; D014825:Vocabulary; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Co-occurrence frequency; purely semantic relation; semantic priming; visual lexical decision task