The syntactic priming effect: Evoked response evidence for a prelexical locus

Samar, Vincent J.; Berent, Gerald P.

doi:10.1016/0093-934x(86)90104-5

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“…However, one significant result of the Brown and Lehmann data was a leftright difference of the maps' negative extreme locations between 33 and 177 msec poststimulus (Lehmann & Skrandies, 1984) in the same sense as in the present study. Samar and Berent (1986) used a syntactic priming paradigm with a lexical decision task were visually presented prime words created a grammatical expectancy and were followed by a noun or verb target word or a nontarget nonword. The authors found an ERP principal component factor accounting significantly for correct versus incorrect priming, independent of the word's grammatical class; it was largest at 140 msec poststimulus.…”

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“…However, in both studies, subjects were aware of the word meaning before the actual presentation, so that the observed ERP differences cannot distinguish between an initially altered brain state and differences in processing of the incoming information. Samar and Berent (1986) reported an ERP principal component factor that significantly accounted for grammatical class. In their study, a lexical decision task was used so that visually presented nouns or verbs or nonwords were embedded in a grammatical context by a prime stimulus word.…”

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Microstates in Language-Related Brain Potential Maps Show Noun–Verb Differences

Koenig¹,

Lehmann²

1996

Brain and Language

149

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Brain processing of grammatical word class was studied analyzing event-related potential (ERP) brain fields. Normal subjects observed a randomized sequence of single German nouns and verbs on a computer screen, while 20-channel ERP field map series were recorded separately for both word classes. Spatial microstate analysis was applied, based on the observation that series of ERP maps consist of epochs of quasi-stable map landscapes and based on the rationale that different map landscapes must have been generated by different neural generators and thus suggest different brain functions. Space-oriented segmentation of the mean map series identified nine successive, different functional microstates, i.e., steps of brain information processing characterized by quasi-stable map landscapes. In the microstate from 116 to 172 msec, noun-related maps differed significantly from verb-related maps along the left-right axis. The results indicate that different neural populations represent different grammatical word classes in language processing, in agreement with clinical observations. This word class differentiation as revealed by the spatialtemporal organization of neural activity occurred at a time after word input compatible with speed of reading.

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Microstates in Language-Related Brain Potential Maps Show Noun–Verb Differences

Koenig¹,

Lehmann²

1996

Brain and Language

149

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“…According to Nicol (1996), both syntactic and morphosyntactic priming effects are robust, having been demonstrated extensively for normal (Goodman, McClelland, & Gibbs, 1981;Samar & Berent, 1986;Seidenberg, Waters, Sanders, & Langer, 1984;West & Stanovich, 1986;Wright & Garrett, 1984) and aphasic populations (Baum, 1988(Baum, , 1989(Baum, , 1996Blumstein et al, 1991;Deutsch & Bentin, 1994;Friederici & Kilborn, 1989;Haarmann & Kolk, 1991Kilborn & Friederici, 1994). Despite the considerable available evidence that testifies to the replicability of syntactic and morphosyntactic priming effects, the locus of these effects remains the subject of debate.…”

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“…Some researchers have interpreted grammatical priming in terms of Posner and Snyder's (1975) theories of automatic and controlled processing, thereby favouring a pre-lexical account for observed priming effects. That is, grammatical priming is the result of processing employed to access lexical information, namely either ASA or of lexical search strategies involving the conscious creation of prime-based expectancies (Baum, 1996;Blumstein et al, 1991;Friederici & Kilborn, 1989;Kilborn & Friederici, 1994;Samar & Berent, 1986).…”

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Morphosyntactic and syntactic priming: an investigation of underlying processing mechanisms and the effects of Parkinson's disease

Arnott

Chenery

Murdoch

et al. 2005

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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“…Word processing should be enhanced, however, when words occur in sentences, because the reader may engage in syntactic and more exhaustive semantic processing as well as lower order processing. Indeed, the results of syntactic priming studies indicate that response times are faster when target words are preceded by syntactically appropriate primes (e.g., Samar & Berent, 1986;Sereno, 1991). Likewise, lexical decisions are made more quickly when target words are preceded by semantically related primes (e.g., Sereno, 1991).…”

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Sentence interference in the Stroop task

Brega

Healy

1999

Memory & Cognition

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In two experiments on Stroop interference, we examined whether sentences can be processed without the intention of the reader. Participants named the ink colors in which words in sentences were printed, and the ink colors in which the same words, randomly arranged, were printed. In Experiment 1, sentences yielded longer response times (RTs) and more errors than did nonsentences, but only when they included words that were highly relevant to the color-naming task (i.e., color and color-related words). In Experiment 2, sentences yielded more errors than did nonsentences, and sentences in which the color words matched the set of ink colors yielded longer RTs than did nonsentences. The results indicate that sentence processing can be obligatory when the component words are highly relevant to the task.In 1935, 1. R. Stroop reported a series of experiments that precipitated an explosion of research into what has since been called the Stroop effect. Stroop found that participants took significantly longer to name the ink colors in which incongruent color words were printed than to name the ink colors in which color squares were printed (Experiment 2). Words caused interference in the co10r-naming task.According to some explanations of the Stroop effect, individuals are so experienced at word reading that they do it without intention (e.g., Posner & Snyder, 1975). More recent accounts suggest that the interference evident in the Stroop task is due to vast differences in the relative strengths ofprocessing associated with word reading and color naming (Cohen, Dunbar, & McClelland, 1990). Processing strength results directly from practice and determines the level of attention that a process requires, the speed with which it can occur, and the interference effects that will emerge in dual-task situations. Word reading is a task practiced frequently; it occurs quickly and requires little attention. Color naming, on the other hand, is a task practiced less often; it therefore requires more time and conscious attention than does word reading.Because the word-reading and color-naming processes both rely on a common resource (i.e., a verbal response at the output stage), the Stroop task promotes response Earlier versions of this report were presented at the meeting of the Rocky Mountain

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The syntactic priming effect: Evoked response evidence for a prelexical locus

Cited by 43 publications

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Microstates in Language-Related Brain Potential Maps Show Noun–Verb Differences

Microstates in Language-Related Brain Potential Maps Show Noun–Verb Differences

Morphosyntactic and syntactic priming: an investigation of underlying processing mechanisms and the effects of Parkinson's disease

Sentence interference in the Stroop task

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