Early semantic activation in a semantic categorization task with masked primes: Cascaded or not?

Bell, Dane; Forster, Kenneth I.; Drake, Shiloh

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2015.06.007

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“…These results are in line with the findings of Bell, Forster, and Drake (2015) as well as Hanczakowski, Beaman, and Jones (2017) due to the case that the alleged knowledge structures are generalised and classified by the thymic category. The latter eventuates in encompassing the concentration of the most distinctive analogous features among the units of the conceptual triad SENSE : FEELING : EMOTION.…”

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The Conceptual Outline of Perception in Terms of Greimassian Semiotic Theory

Zaslonkina¹

2018

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The current study addresses the nature of the relation between perceptual, cognitive, emotional processes, and linguistic experience within the observer framework. As an extension of the already conducted investigations into the semiotics of the sensible, the conceptual triad SENSE : FEELING : EMOTION is introduced. The study argues that the ternion in question is a component of human expressivity constituting the semiotic space of the thymic category. The synergism of cognitive-semantic characteristics of the three concepts under study corresponds to the basic level of categorisation in modern English. More significantly, the aim of the analysis is to consider the valency models of the names of the conceptual triad SENSE : FEELING : EMOTION as well as their collocability potential. The present paper highlights that the structures of predicate valency of conceptual dependencies FEELING → SENSE (the valency index equals 0,38) outnumber the analogous structures FEELING → EMOTION (the valency index equals 0,24). The structures of object valency of the combinations FEELING → EMOTION (the valency index is 0,9) prevail over the combinations SENSE → FEELING (with the valency index of 0,1). The data obtained confirm the idea that the correlation between observer and observable is twofold: cognitive-perceptual correlation denotes the observer's outward perspective, whereas cognitiveemotional correlation denotes the observer's inward perspective.

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The Conceptual Outline of Perception in Terms of Greimassian Semiotic Theory

Zaslonkina¹

2018

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“… 5 More recently, Bell, Forster, and Drake (2015) extended this finding to masked primed semantic categorization, showing that when the task is to categorize the word as a vegetable or a city name for example, an orthographically related nonword (or a word) facilitated the categorization of a target word (e.g., lucchibi – ZUCCHINI; capable [cabbage] – LETTUCE). …”

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The magic of words reconsidered: Investigating the automaticity of reading color-neutral words in the Stroop task.

Kinoshita

Wit

Norris

2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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In 2 variants of the color-word Stroop task, we compared 5 types of color-neutral distractors-real words (e.g., HAT), pseudowords (e.g., HIX), consonant strings (e.g., HDK), symbol strings (e.g., #$%), and a row of Xs (e.g., XXX)-as well as incongruent color words (e.g., GREEN displayed in red). When participants named the color, relative to a row of Xs, words and pseudowords interfered equally and more than the consonant strings, which in turn interfered more than the symbols. In contrast, when participants identified the color by manual key-press responses, all 5 types of neutral strings produced equal color response latencies. In both tasks, the incongruent color words produced robust interference relative to the color-neutral words. Reaction time (RT) distribution analyses showed that all interference effects (relative to the row of Xs) increased across the quantiles. We interpret these results in terms of an evidence accumulation process in which the interfering distractor reduces the effective rate of evidence accumulation for the color target. We take the results to argue that the task of reading, even when triggered unintentionally, is not an invariant process driven solely by the stimulus properties, and is instead guided by the task goal. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…However, there is the possibility that the ambiguity advantage observed in the 2AFC task was not caused exclusively by an orthographic boost for ambiguous words. Indeed, there is evidence showing that 2AFC responses may be somewhat influenced by semantic processing (e.g., Bell, Forster, & Drake, 2015;Marcel, 1983). For example, in the study of Marcel (1983), participants conducted a 2AFC task in which the flashed word and one of the two targets were related semantically (e.g., dog -wallet/animal).…”

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Is There an Orthographic Boost for Ambiguous Words During Their Processing?

Haro

Comesaña

Ferré

2018

J Psycholinguist Res

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Is there an orthographic boost for ambiguous words during their processing?The present study explores the issue of why ambiguous words are recognized faster than unambiguous ones during word recognition. To this end we contrasted two different hypotheses: the semantic feedback hypothesis (Hino & Lupker, 1996), and the hypothesis proposed by Borowsky and Masson (1996). Although both hypotheses agree that ambiguous words benefit during recognition in that they engage more semantic activation, they disagree as to whether or not this greater semantic activation feeds back to the orthographic level, hence speeding up the orthographic coding of ambiguous words. Participants were presented with ambiguous and unambiguous words in two tasks, a lexical decision task (LDT) and a two-alternative forced-choice task (2AFC). We found differences between ambiguous and unambiguous words in both the LDT and the 2AFC tasks. These results suggest that the orthographic coding of ambiguous words is boosted during word processing. This finding lends support to the semantic feedback hypothesis.

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Early semantic activation in a semantic categorization task with masked primes: Cascaded or not?

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

The Conceptual Outline of Perception in Terms of Greimassian Semiotic Theory

The Conceptual Outline of Perception in Terms of Greimassian Semiotic Theory

The magic of words reconsidered: Investigating the automaticity of reading color-neutral words in the Stroop task.

Is There an Orthographic Boost for Ambiguous Words During Their Processing?

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