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Word recognition and temporal order judgments: semantics turns back the clock.

J A Stolz1

  • 1Psychology Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. jstolz@watarts.uwaterloo.ca

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology = Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale
|January 26, 2000
PubMed
Summary

Word recognition primes influence unrelated tasks. Semantic priming affects temporal order judgments, showing activated codes impact attention during word perception.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Human Information Processing

Background:

  • Word recognition involves activating semantic codes.
  • These activated codes may influence cognitive processes beyond reading.
  • Understanding these cross-domain effects is crucial for cognitive models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if semantic codes activated during word recognition impact unrelated tasks.
  • To examine the effect of semantic priming on temporal order judgments.
  • To determine if word recognition processes influence attentional selection.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a temporal order judgment task, identifying which of two word targets appeared first.
  • Targets were presented synchronously or with varying stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs).

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  • One target was semantically related to a preceding prime word for a subset of participants.

    • Main Results:

    • Semantic priming influenced temporal order judgments.
    • Participants incorrectly reported related targets as appearing first more often, even when presented second.
    • This indicates that semantic activation interferes with accurate temporal sequencing.

    Conclusions:

    • Activated semantic codes from word recognition extend their influence to unrelated tasks.
    • The findings suggest that semantic priming affects attentional selection mechanisms within temporal order judgments.
    • This highlights the pervasive nature of word recognition processes in cognition.