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Automatic stimulus-response associations may be semantically mediated.

Bert Reynvoet1, Bernie Caessens, Marc Brysbaert

  • 1Ghent University, Belgium.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
|May 25, 2002
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Priming with numbers affects how quickly people judge parity. Even when primes are different or unseen, number meaning automatically influences response times.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Numerical Cognition

Background:

  • Investigating the automaticity of numerical processing.
  • Understanding the role of stimulus characteristics in masked priming.
  • Exploring semantic mediation in cognitive tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine how numerical primes influence reaction latencies (RTs) in odd/even judgments.
  • To determine if response compatibility effects persist with non-target primes or cross-modal priming.
  • To ascertain whether response codes are automatically activated and semantically mediated.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments using tachistoscopic presentation of Arabic numeral primes and targets.
  • Manipulation of prime-target parity status and numerical distance.

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  • Inclusion of conditions with non-target primes and verbal numeral primes.

    • Main Results:

    • RTs were longer when prime and target parity differed compared to when they were the same.
    • On compatible trials, RTs increased with greater absolute numerical distance between prime and target.
    • Response compatibility effects were observed even with unseen primes and cross-modal priming (verbal vs. Arabic numerals).

    Conclusions:

    • Masked priming automatically activates response codes based on prime stimulus characteristics.
    • This activation is semantically mediated when primes are meaningful numerical stimuli.
    • Findings support automatic and semantic processing in numerical cognition.