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Conditional automaticity in subliminal morphosyntactic priming.

Ulrich Ansorge¹, Bert Reynvoet, Jessica Hendler

¹Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria. ulrich.ansorge@univie.ac.at

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|June 13, 2012

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Subliminal articles unconsciously influence our perception of nouns. This priming effect, known as subliminal morphosyntactic priming, speeds up responses when article and noun genders match.

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Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

Subliminal priming demonstrates unconscious processing of linguistic information.
Morphosyntactic priming specifically explores how grammatical features influence language processing.
The role of gender congruence in subliminal priming remains an area of investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the principles of subliminal morphosyntactic priming using a gender-classification task.
To determine if the congruence effect of subliminal articles on target nouns depends on gender relevance.
To examine the influence of word order on subliminal syntactic priming.

Main Methods:

Experiment 1: Masked, subliminal articles (feminine/masculine) preceded target nouns in a gender-classification task.
Experiment 2: Compared gender-classification with another categorical discrimination task to assess relevance dependence.
Experiment 3: Manipulated word order (noun-article vs. article-noun) to test its effect on priming.
Experiment 4: Replicated findings with a larger target set, analyzing gender-specific effects.

Main Results:

Subliminal articles significantly primed responses, with faster reaction times for congruent gender pairs (Experiment 1).
The congruence effect was observed only in the gender-classification task, not in a non-gender-related task, indicating relevance dependence (Experiment 2).
The priming effect was diminished when the word order was reversed (nouns preceding articles) (Experiment 3).
Replication confirmed the congruence effect, particularly for masculine targets (Experiment 4).

Conclusions:

Subliminal morphosyntactic priming is a valid phenomenon, demonstrating unconscious grammatical influence.
The effect is dependent on the relevance of the grammatical feature (gender) to the task.
Correct syntactic structure (word order) is crucial for observing robust subliminal syntactic priming.