Associative and Phonological Priming Effects After Letter Search On the Prime
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2006
Department
Psychology
Abstract
Responses to target words typically are faster and more accurate after associatively related primes (e.g., "orange-juice") than after unrelated primes (e.g., "glue-juice"). This priming effect has been used as an index of semantic activation, and its elimination often is cited as evidence against semantic access. When participants are asked to perform a letter search on the prime, associative priming typically is eliminated, but repetition and morphological priming remain. It is possible that priming survives letter search when it arises from activity in codes that are represented before semantics. This experiment examined associative and phonological priming to determine whether priming from phonologically related rhymes would remain after letter search (e.g., "moose-juice"; rhyming items were orthographically dissimilar). When participants read the primes, equivalent associative and phonological priming effects were obtained; both effects were eliminated after letter search. The impact of letter search on semantic and phonological access and implications for the structural arrangement of lexical and semantic memory are discussed.
Publication Title
American Journal of Psychology
Volume
119
Issue
2
First Page
239
Last Page
254
Recommended Citation
Kahan, T. A.,
Sellinger, J. J.,
Broman-Fulks, J. J.
(2006). Associative and Phonological Priming Effects After Letter Search On the Prime. American Journal of Psychology, 119(2), 239-254.
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