The effect of asymmetrical association on positive and negative semantic priming

Hutchison, Keith A.

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“…Negative priming effects have also been found to generalize semantically (Fuentes & Tudela, 1992;Tipper & Baylis, 1987;Tipper & Driver, 1988; but see also Enright & Beech, 1993;Yee, 1991). Recently, Hutchison (2002) showed how episodic retrieval theories could account for semantic negative priming by assuming that items associated with the prime distractor are tagged as "to be ignored" during prime selection, a proposition that is very similar to our account for negative priming effects in task switching (Waszak et al, 2003, in press). However, the specific mechanism of semantic priming is not the focus of the present paper.…”

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Semantic generalization of stimulus-task bindings

Waszak

Hommel

Allport

2004

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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People find it difficult to switch between two tasks, even if they have time to prepare-the so-called residual task shift cost. We studied a switch of tasks from picture naming to word reading, using picture-word Stroop stimuli. Consistent with previous findings, we demonstrate that a large part of the observed task shift cost was due to priming from prior stimulus-response episodes, in which the current task stimulus was encountered in a competing task. We further show that this task-priming effect generalizes to semantically related stimuli, which opens the possibility that most or all of these residual shift costs reflect some sort of generalized proactive interference from previous stimulus-task episodes.BRIEF REPORTS

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Semantic generalization of stimulus-task bindings

Waszak

Hommel

Allport

2004

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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“…When considering the mean RT data, Hutchison (2002) argued that episodic retrieval and Tipper's contextually retrieved inhibition could not easily be distinguished as they derived similar predictions for the effect of contextual similarity on negative priming. However, by observing the change of negative priming across RT bins, the current study showed that episodic retrieval per se may not account for the constant effect across RT bins under conditions that do not encourage episodic retrieval strategies (i.e., 0.00 TRP/different context condition).…”

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Effects of contextual similarity and target-repetition proportion on negative priming in RT distributional analyses.

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Hutchison

2011

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Participants' reaction time (RT) data in a prime-probe flanker task (e.g., ABA-CAC) were analyzed in terms of the characteristics of RT distribution to examine possible mechanisms that produce negative priming. When the prime and probe were presented in the same context and the proportion of repetition-target trials (TRP) was 0.33, negative priming increased as a function of RT bins, supporting the episodic retrieval account (Neill, 1997). Manipulations that discourage the use of episodic retrieval (i.e., switching context between prime and probe or 0.00 TRP) eliminated the increase in negative priming across RT bins, even though the overall effect remained significant. These data support a dual-mechanism account in which, depending on task demands, both selective inhibition and episodic retrieval can be involved in producing negative priming.

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“…However, given their lack of significant priming for forward-related pairs, Shelton and Martin's backward-related inhibition result is difficult to interpret. Hutchison (2002) also utilized a continuous LDT and found significant forward priming from both compound and noncompound items but no effects for either type of item when presented in the backward direction. However, Hutchison's procedure included a 2-sec interval between trials, making it unclear whether participants might have temporally grouped the primes and targets together.…”

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“…7 In most of these studies (Kahan, Neely, & Forsythe, 1999;Koriat, 1981;Peterson & Simpson, 1989;Seidenberg, Wa-ters, Sanders, & Langer, 1984;Shelton & Martin, 1992;Thompson-Schill, Kurtz, & Gabrieli, 1998), a standard LDT was utilized, although in some either a continuous LDT (Hutchison, 2002;Shelton & Martin, 1992) or a pronunciation task (Kahan et al, 1999;Peterson & Simpson, 1989;Seidenberg et al, 1984;ThompsonSchill et al, 1998) was utilized. In addition, all of these studies used asymmetrically associated noncompound pairs (e.g., stork-baby), prime-target pairs that form a compound word when combined (e.g., lip-stick), or both.…”

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Is semantic priming due to association strength or feature overlap? A microanalytic review

Hutchison

2003

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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In a recent meta-analysis, Lucas (2000) concluded that there is strong evidence of an overall pure semantic priming effect but no evidence of priming based purely on association. In the present review, I critically examine the individual studies claiming evidence of featural and associative relations in semantic memory. The most important conclusion is that automatic priming appears to be due to both association strength and feature overlap. Mediated associates provide the strongest evidence of automatic associative priming, whereas functional associates, synonyms, and antonyms instead support priming based on feature overlap. In contrast, automatic priming does not occur for category coordinates or perceptually similar items, at least when presented in the visual modality. The status of other relations, such as collocates, episodic relatives, and script relations, is unclear and requires further experimentation. Implications for current models of semantic representation and priming are discussed.

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The effect of asymmetrical association on positive and negative semantic priming

Cited by 24 publications

References 67 publications

Semantic generalization of stimulus-task bindings

Semantic generalization of stimulus-task bindings

Effects of contextual similarity and target-repetition proportion on negative priming in RT distributional analyses.

Is semantic priming due to association strength or feature overlap? A microanalytic review

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