Long-term semantic priming of propositions representing general knowledge

Sorensen, Linda J.; Indahl, Timothy C.; Splinter, Adrienne F.

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2014.11.002

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“…A similar conclusion was drawn from subsequent priming experiments using short sentences that represented single propositions (Woltz, Sorensen, Indahl, & Splinter, 2015). They reported a series of experiments designed to contrast the roles of memory for abstract proposition meaning and memory for mental operations used to encode the meaning and select a response.…”

Section: Long-term Category Primingmentioning

confidence: 61%

Memory processes underlying long-term semantic priming

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Hirsch

2018

Mem Cogn

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Two decades of research in semantic priming has provided substantial evidence for a distinction between short-and long-term semantic priming effects. Early models of cognition suggested a single mechanism to explain priming at short and long lags. Later models refuted this explanation and proposed that different mechanisms are necessary to account for different durations of priming effects. Two alternative explanations of long-term semantic priming effects have been proposed in the extant literature. The first explanation is that long-term semantic priming effects rely upon the incremental strengthening of abstract semantic memory representations. The second explanation is that long-term priming is the result of memory for prior cognitive operations. In two experiments, we used different semantic contentword meaning versus category membershipto investigate the mechanisms accountable for long-term semantic priming. Evidence from the two experiments suggests that long-term semantic priming effects are due to different memory processes for different semantic content. Long-term semantic priming of word meanings was dependent on strengthening abstract semantic memory representations and persistent priming of category membership was dependent on memory for prior cognitive operations.

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Section: Long-term Category Primingmentioning

confidence: 61%

Memory processes underlying long-term semantic priming

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Hirsch

2018

Mem Cogn

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“…We cannot rule out this possibility, but we saw no evidence of different judgment RT between the repetition and semantic priming condition. If explicit recollection of an earlier repetition prime was instrumental in the repetition priming condition, longer response times would be expected (see Woltz et al, 2015 for an example of this phenomena).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Simple prime tasks such as word identification or pronunciation produce small effects that last no more than one intervening trial at best (see McNamara, 2005). In contrast, prime tasks that require word meaning evaluation or categorization produce larger effects that persist over many intervening trials Woltz, 2010;Woltz et al, 2015). The rating of word frequencies, while it presumably produces automatic activation in semantic memory, does not demand the active processing of meaning that produces long-term semantic priming.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast to lexical decision priming research, some previous experiments have demonstrated longer-lasting semantic priming effects (Becker, Moscovitch, Behrmann, & Joordens, 1997;Tse & Neely, 2005Woltz, 2010;Woltz, Sorensen, Indahl, & Splinter, 2015;Woltz & Was, 2007). In all cases, the experimental tasks required increased semantic processing of words compared to the conventional lexical decision priming task (see McNamara, 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…When priming is demonstrated with exemplars from well-structured, familiar categories, facilitation effects appear to reflect memory for specific mental operations used in evaluating category membership Woltz & Was, 2007). When priming is demonstrated in tasks that demand judgments of individual word or proposition meaning, facilitation effects appear to reflect changes to abstract semantic representations that generalize across different evaluation operations (Woltz, 2010;Woltz et al, 2015). This latter form of priming task was employed here.…”

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