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[Lexical representation in semantic memory and phonological priming effects].

T Inoue1

  • 1Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, Kyoto University.

Shinrigaku Kenkyu : the Japanese Journal of Psychology
|October 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary

Phonological priming effects reveal that three-letter words with shared adjacent letters are closely linked in semantic memory. Activation spread in lexical memory may take longer than in conceptual memory.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

Context:

  • Investigating the structure of semantic memory and lexical processing.
  • Utilizing phonological priming effects within a lexical decision task.
  • Examining the temporal dynamics of word recognition.

Purpose:

  • To explore how phonological similarity influences lexical decision times.
  • To determine the role of adjacent letter similarity in word representation.
  • To compare the time course of activation spread in lexical versus conceptual memory.

Summary:

  • Three experiments manipulated stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) with phonologically related/unrelated three-letter words as primes.
  • Priming effects were observed, particularly when primes and targets shared adjacent letters.

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  • Facilitation occurred at 700 ms SOA, while both facilitation and inhibition were seen at 1000 ms SOA.

    • Impact:

    • Suggests phonologically similar words are structurally related in lexical representations.
    • Highlights the importance of adjacent letter phonological similarity for three-letter words.
    • Indicates that lexical representation activation may require more time than conceptual representation activation.