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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Relational priming is hypothesized to underlie unintentional analogical reasoning.
  • Prior research yielded inconclusive results regarding unintentional relational priming, particularly with lexical decision tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate unintentional and efficient relational priming.
  • To determine if relational priming occurs without explicit instructions or task demands for relational integration.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments utilized a lexical decision task with word pairs.
  • Stimuli were designed to elicit similar processing, with a longer stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA).
  • Experiment 2 included a secondary task to occupy executive working memory resources.

Main Results:

  • Participants exhibited faster lexical decisions for target pairs preceded by related prime pairs compared to unrelated pairs.
  • This unintentional relational priming effect persisted even under cognitive load.
  • Differences in semantic similarity, co-occurrence, and imageability did not account for the observed priming.

Conclusions:

  • Relational priming can occur unintentionally and efficiently.
  • This priming is robust and not dependent on explicit instructions or task necessity.
  • Findings support the role of automatic relational processing in cognition.