Revisiting novel word semantic priming: The role of strategic priming mechanisms.

ABSTRACT: Although it has been proposed that new words are encoded in a qualitatively different way from established words-in episodic rather than semantic memory-such accounts are challenged by the finding that newly learnt words influence the processing of well-known words in semantic priming tasks. In this article, we explore whether this apparent contradiction is due to differences in task design. Specifically, we hypothesised that a large stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) would allow the participant to engage strategic retrieval and priming mechanisms to facilitate the recognition of a semantically related word, compared with a shorter SOA, which promotes more automatic processing. In Experiment 1, 60 participants learned 34 novel words and their meanings that later served as primes for related/u

SUBMITTER: Ball LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12432285 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature