Journal article
Semantic priming is affected by real-time phonological competition: evidence for continuous cascading systems
Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.18(1), pp.141-149
02/2011
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-010-0039-8
PMCID: PMC3480205
PMID: 21327343
Abstract
Lexical-semantic access is affected by the phonological structure of the lexicon. What is less clear is whether such effects are the result of continuous activation between lexical form and semantic processing or whether they arise from a more modular system in which the timing of accessing lexical form determines the timing of semantic activation. This study examined this issue using the visual world paradigm by investigating the time course of semantic priming as a function of the number of phonological competitors. Critical trials consisted of high or low density auditory targets (e.g., horse) and a visual display containing a target, a semantically related object (e.g., saddle), and two phonologically and semantically unrelated objects (e.g., chimney, bikini). Results showed greater magnitude of priming for semantically related objects of low than of high density words, and no differences for high and low density word targets in the time course of looks to the word semantically related to the target. This pattern of results is consistent with models of cascading activation, which predict that lexical activation has continuous effects on the level of semantic activation, with no delays in the onset of semantic activation for phonologically competing words.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Semantic priming is affected by real-time phonological competition: evidence for continuous cascading systems
- Creators
- Keith S Apfelbaum - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, E11 SSH, Iowa City, IA 52241, USA. keith-apfelbaum@uiowa.eduSheila E BlumsteinBob McMurray
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.18(1), pp.141-149
- DOI
- 10.3758/s13423-010-0039-8
- PMID
- 21327343
- PMCID
- PMC3480205
- NLM abbreviation
- Psychon Bull Rev
- ISSN
- 1069-9384
- eISSN
- 1531-5320
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- R01 DC008089 / NIDCD NIH HHS DC00314 / NIDCD NIH HHS DC008089 / NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC000314 / NIDCD NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2011
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Linguistics; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984070469502771
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