Semantic Priming in a Single-Word Shadowing Task

Slowiaczek, Louisa M.

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“…Thus, consistent data from this task could provide further support for the sentence-gating method. The agent-naming task utilized here is a variant of the word-naming or shadowing/repetition task used by MarslenWilson (1985), and more recently by Liu et al (in press) and Slowiaczek (1994). In the single-word shadowing task used by Liu et aI., listeners were required to repeat the target word embedded in a sentence as soon as possible, and the target word was pronounced by a voice ofthe opposite sex from that in which the sentence had been pronounced.…”

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“…Sentence materials were presented either successively (Experiment 1; see also P. Li, 1994) or individually (Experiment 2). The third was an agent-naming experiment, adapted from the word-shadowing paradigm (Liu, Bates, Powell, & Wulfeck, in press;Marslen-Wilson, 1985;Slowiaczek, 1994). Consistent results from these different paradigms, I reasoned, will lead to converging evidence, while inconsistent results may reflect effects specific to a particular paradigm.…”

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The temporal structure of spoken sentence comprehension in Chinese

1996

Perception & Psychophysics

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Three experiments with 60 native Chinese speakers were conducted to examine the temporal structure of spoken sentence comprehension in Chinese. In the two sentence-gating experiments, listeners heard sentence fragments of various sizes, either successively or individually, and decided on the agent role of the sentence. In the agent-naming experiment, listeners repeated aloud the sentence agent upon hearing the sentence. Converging evidence was derived from these experiments indicating the usefulness of sentence gating in tapping into the temporal structure of comprehension and in evaluating listeners' comprehension on the basis of partial information. Results from these experiments show that partial sentence information plays a very important role in Chinese sentence comprehension, and that Chinese listeners integrate incomplete and ungrammatical sentence fragments by reference to complete and grammatical models in the language. It is argued that these processing characteristics reflect properties ofthe Chinese language in which few morphological, grammatical, and syntactic constraints are placed on the relationships between sentence constituents.

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The temporal structure of spoken sentence comprehension in Chinese

1996

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…Finally, similar arguments to those levelled at verification procedures in the single-word semantic priming literature (i.e., lexical decision tasks) can be made with regard to those employed in studying simple arithmetic. Specifically, it has been suggested that 'attentional' decision processes, that occur after the simple matching of a stimulus with its lexical representation, may confound the overall reaction time measured in the lexical decision task Friedrich, Henik & Tzelgov, 1991;Lorch, Balota & Stamm, 1986;Neely, 1991;Sereno, 1991;Slowiaczek, 1994;Smith, Besner & Myoshi, 1994). In the case of the aforementioned studies then, it could be argued that the requirement to actively make a binary decision as to the relationship between the prime and the target might interfere with the automatic processes, essentially thought to occur without intention or awareness, that they purport to measure.…”

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Simple arithmetic processing: The question of automaticity

Jackson¹,

Coney²

2005

Acta Psychologica

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In adult simple arithmetic performance, it is commonly held that retrieval of solutions occurs automatically from a network of stored facts in memory. However, such an account of performance necessarily predicts a uniform reaction time for solution retrieval and is therefore not consistent with the robust finding that reaction time increases with problem size and difficulty. Additionally, past research into arithmetic performance has relied on tasks that may have actually induced and measured attentional processing, thereby possibly confounding previous results and conclusions pertaining to automaticity. The present study therefore, attempted to more reliably assess the influence of automatic processing in arithmetic performance by utilizing a variant of the well-established semantic word-priming procedure with a target-naming task. The overall results revealed significant facilitation in naming times at SOAs of 240 and 1500 ms for congruent targets i.e., targets that represented the correct solutions to problems presented as primes (e.g., 6 + 8 and 14). Significant inhibition in comparison to a neutral condition (0 + 0 and 17) was also observed at 120 and 240 ms SOAs in naming incongruent targets (e.g., 6 + 8 and 17).Furthermore, response times were found to vary as a function of both arithmetic fluency and problem size. Differences in performance to addition and multiplication operations and implications for cognitive research and education are considered.

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“…NURSE), the so-called semantic priming effect has been extensively replicated in written word recognition, especially for associatively related pairs (Lupker, 1984;Neely, 1990). It was later demonstrated between spoken words, using the lexical decision task (Radeau, 1983) and single word shadowing (Slowiaczek, 1994), and was shown to occur across sensory modalities, for example, between an auditory prime and a visual target (Swinney et al, 1979).…”

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Semantic, repetition and rime priming between spoken words: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Radeau

Besson

Fonteneau

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Biological Psychology

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Semantic, phonological and repetition priming for auditorily presented words were examined, using both behavioral reaction times (RTs) and electrophysiological event-related potentials (ERPs) measures. On critical trials, a word prime was followed by a word target that was semantically or phonologically related (rime) or not related (control) to the prime. Pairs of word-pseudoword items served as fillers. Participants were asked to respond to word targets in the RT experiment and to pseudowords in the ERP experiment. In each experiment stimuli were presented once and then repeated in the very same way. RTs were found to be fastest for semantic, intermediate for rime and slowest for control targets; large repetition effects occurred for all targets. ERPs results showed that both semantic and phonological priming influenced the same component, namely the N400, whose amplitude was smallest to semantic, intermediate to rime and largest to control targets; repetition effects were only found for semantic trials.

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Semantic Priming in a Single-Word Shadowing Task

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The temporal structure of spoken sentence comprehension in Chinese

The temporal structure of spoken sentence comprehension in Chinese

Simple arithmetic processing: The question of automaticity

Semantic, repetition and rime priming between spoken words: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

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