Semantic priming modulates the N400, N300, and N400RP

Franklin, Michael S.; Dien, Joseph; Neely, James H.; Huber, Elizabeth; Waterson, Lauren D.

doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2007.01.012

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“…The authors found a significant activation in the right posterior cingulated, with related prime pairs as compared to unrelated prime pairs. This data replicated a previous event-related potentials (ERP) study 28 which observed a word N300 in a word similar experiment.…”

Section: Neural Correlates Of Lexical-semantic Processing and The Semsupporting

confidence: 80%

Lexical-semantic processing in the semantic priming paradigm in aphasic patients

Salles

Holderbaum

Parente

et al. 2012

Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.

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There is evidence that the explicit lexical-semantic processing deficits which characterize aphasia may be observed in the absence of implicit semantic impairment. The aim of this article was to critically review the international literature on lexical-semantic processing in aphasia, as tested through the semantic priming paradigm. Specifically, this review focused on aphasia and lexical-semantic processing, the methodological strengths and weaknesses of the semantic paradigms used, and recent evidence from neuroimaging studies on lexical-semantic processing. Furthermore, evidence on dissociations between implicit and explicit lexical-semantic processing reported in the literature will be discussed and interpreted by referring to functional neuroimaging evidence from healthy populations. There is evidence that semantic priming effects can be found both in fluent and in non-fluent aphasias, and that these effects are related to an extensive network which includes the temporal lobe, the pre-frontal cortex, the left frontal gyrus, the left temporal gyrus and the cingulated cortex.

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Section: Neural Correlates Of Lexical-semantic Processing and The Semsupporting

confidence: 80%

Lexical-semantic processing in the semantic priming paradigm in aphasic patients

Salles

Holderbaum

Parente

et al. 2012

Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.

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“…In contrast, we predicted that these effects would be relatively unaffected by SOA, as suggested by a number of studies using no repetition (Boddy, 1986;Hill et al, 2002;Franklin et al, 2007). Finally, rather than meaning dimension (i.e., categorical relations vs. associative relations), we hypothesized that task instruction would be critical for the preservation of semantic priming effects with repetition.…”

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confidence: 51%

“…N400 effects of priming consists in reduced N400 amplitudes for primed or congruous words compared to unprimed or incongruous words in sentence Hillyard, 1980, 1984) or prime-target (Bentin et al, 1985) contexts. These effects were observed in tasks involving all mentioned semantic relations, namely category (e.g., Heinze et al, 1998), functional (Bach et al, 2009), synonymy (Liu et al, 2003), antonymy (Kutas and Iragui, 1998), schema (Chwilla and Kolk, 2005), or world knowledge (Hagoort et al, 2004) but also associative relations (Franklin et al, 2007). These findings thus indicate a systematic sensitivity of the N400 component to the processing of meaning.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 58%

Explicit semantic tasks are necessary to study semantic priming effects with high rates of repetition

Renoult

Wang

Mortimer

et al. 2012

Clinical Neurophysiology

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h i g h l i g h t sAssociative priming decreases N400 amplitude and reaction time (RT) to highly repeated target words. N400 generators in the left superior temporal gyrus and inferior parietal cortex are involved in priming effects across stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs).Task used, rather than SOA or the proportion of related words, is crucial for the maintenance of semantic processing with high rates of repetition. a b s t r a c tObjective: The purpose of the present study was to clarify in which experimental conditions the semantic processing of repeated words is preserved. Methods: We contrasted a short (250 ms) and a long (1000 ms) stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) in two different experiments, using a relatively low proportion of related words (30%). One group of participants performed a lexical decision task (LDT) and a second group performed an explicit semantic matching task with the same words (except for pseudowords) and the same task parameters. In both tasks, word stimuli consisted solely of two prime and two target words repeated throughout the experiment. Results: The effects of semantic priming on reaction time (RT) and the amplitude of the N400 ERP were absent for both the short and the long SOA in the LDT. In contrast, in the explicit semantic task, these effects were significant. In this task, the activity of N400 generators in the left superior temporal gyrus and the inferior parietal cortex significantly differentiated primed and unprimed trials but this effect did not interact with SOA. Conclusions: Our results indicate that task instruction is critical to preserve semantic processing with repeated presentations. Significance: Using explicit semantic designs, it may be possible to study associative or categorical relations between individual concepts.

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“…In the behavioural priming literature, three different priming mechanisms have been proposed [2,5]: (1) Automatic spreading of activation (ASA) was the first such proposal [6] and assumes that semantically related 'word nodes' in long-term memory (LTM) are linked, such that activation of one node (e.g., doctor) spreads to related nodes (e.g., nurse) and pre-activates them, thereby facilitating subsequent lexical access. Given that ASA is viewed as fast, automatic and passive, semantic priming due to ASA is taken as mandatory at least at short stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) of less than 300 ms between prime and target, but it also seems to play a role at longer SOAs.…”

Section: Priming Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The priming of priming: Evidence that the N400 reflects context-dependent post-retrieval word integration in working memory

Steinhauer

Royle

Drury

et al. 2017

Neuroscience Letters

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Which cognitive processes are reflected by the N400 in ERPs is still controversial. Various recent articles (Lau et al., 2008;Brouwer et al., 2012) have revived the idea that only processes during word-retrieval (such as automatic spreading activation, ASA) are strongly supported, while post-lexical integrative processes are not. The present ERP study replicates a behavioral study by McKoon and Ratcliff (1995) who demonstrated that a prime-target pair such as finger -hand shows stronger priming when a majority of other pairs in the list share the analogous semantic relationship (here: part-whole), even at short stimulus onset asynchronies (250 ms). We created lists with four different types of semantic relationship (synonyms, part-whole, category-member, opposites) and compared priming for pairs in a consistent list with those in an inconsistent list as well as unrelated items. Highly significant N400 reductions were found for both relatedness priming (unrelated vs. inconsistent) and relational priming (inconsistent vs. consistent). These data are taken as strong evidence that N400 priming effects are not exclusively carried by ASAlike mechanisms during lexical retrieval but also include post-lexical integration in working memory. The present findings will be linked to a neurocomputational model for relational reasoning (Knowlton et al., 2012) and to recent discussions of context-dependent conceptual activations (Yee & Thompson-Schill, 2016).

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Semantic priming modulates the N400, N300, and N400RP

Cited by 106 publications

References 48 publications

Lexical-semantic processing in the semantic priming paradigm in aphasic patients

Lexical-semantic processing in the semantic priming paradigm in aphasic patients

Explicit semantic tasks are necessary to study semantic priming effects with high rates of repetition

The priming of priming: Evidence that the N400 reflects context-dependent post-retrieval word integration in working memory

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