A Role for Partial Awareness in the Modulation of Semantic Priming Effects
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Thomas, Joseph DenardIssue Date
2008Keywords
Masked PrimingSemantic Priming
Partial Awareness
Empirical Semantics
Psycholinguistics
Visual Word Recognition
Advisor
Forster, Kenneth I.Committee Chair
Forster, Kenneth I.
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The University of Arizona.Rights
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The present study sought to investigate the extent to which masked semantic priming is an automatic process and whether its effects vary depending upon the type of stimuli used. Recent studies have shown that there is a differential priming effect for prime-target pairs with different types of semantic relationships. Here, using a semantic categorization task with masked priming, we compared the effects of synonym, antonym,and associatively related non-exemplar prime-target pairs when presented at different stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). Participants took a prime visibility posttest in conjunction with the categorization task which served as a measure of "partial awareness" of the prime. The results here indicate that differences in perceptual awareness may produce differential semantic priming patterns across the semantic relationships and SOAs considered. Potential mechanisms for this divergence are proposed.Type
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MADegree Level
mastersDegree Program
PsychologyGraduate College