Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Automatic processes in lexical access and spreading activation.

F J Friedrich1, A Henik, J Tzelgov

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
|August 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Observing ageism implicitly using the numerical parity judgment task.

Scientific reports·2023
Same author

Right anterior cerebellum BOLD responses reflect age related changes in Simon task sequential effects.

Neuropsychologia·2017
Same author

Attentional bias in clinical depression and anxiety: The impact of emotional and non-emotional distracting information.

Biological psychology·2016
Same author

Lateralisation of emotions: evidence from pupil size measurement.

Cognition & emotion·2016
Same author

Using executive control training to suppress amygdala reactivity to aversive information.

NeuroImage·2015
Same author

Long trial durations normalise the interference effect and sequential updating during healthy aging.

Acta psychologica·2014
Same journal

Human thermal sensitivity drifts at extreme temperatures.

Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance·2026
Same journal

Dynamic competition between selective attention and spatial prediction during visual search.

Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance·2026
Same journal

Encapsulation of the visual perception of social events from semantic priming.

Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance·2026
Same journal

Biasmapping: Idiosyncratic covert search in the vicinity of fixation.

Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance·2026
Same journal

What are you still waiting for? Fricative recognition shows encapsulated processing and is partially predicted by secondary cue reliance.

Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance·2026
Same journal

Eye movements reveal that drivers can predict the location of hazards in dynamic road scenes but gaze and awareness are dissociable.

Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance·2026
See all related articles

The prime task influences semantic priming. Letter-search tasks on prime words eliminate semantic priming, suggesting effects on associate activation, not lexical access.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Experimental Psychology

Background:

  • The semantic priming effect, where exposure to a word influences the processing of a related word, is a key area in cognitive psychology.
  • The extent of semantic priming can vary based on how the initial prime word is processed.
  • Understanding the mechanisms behind these variations is crucial for theories of word recognition and semantic memory.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the 'prime task effect' on semantic priming.
  • To determine if prime words are encoded at a lexical level during letter-search tasks.
  • To differentiate between lexical access and activation of semantic associates.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized identity and semantic priming tasks.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Employed a letter-search task on prime words.
  • Used a cross-modal priming technique to assess activation of semantic associates.

    • Main Results:

    • Naming prime words resulted in both identity and semantic priming.
    • Letter-search tasks on prime words yielded only identity priming, not semantic priming.
    • Identity priming in the letter-search task was confirmed to stem from lexical processes, not simple letter-by-letter priming.

    Conclusions:

    • The prime task significantly modulates the semantic priming effect.
    • Letter-search tasks appear to affect the activation of semantic associates rather than the initial lexical access of the prime word.
    • These findings have implications for understanding automaticity and the underlying mechanisms of priming in cognitive processing.