The facilitation effect of associative and semantic relatedness in word recognition

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关键词: associative priming;    semantic priming;    lexical relations;    lexical decision task;    componential analysis;   

DOI  :  10.2298/PSI1104367J

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this study we addressed three issues concerning semantic and associativerelatedness between two words and how they prime each other. The first issueis whether there is a priming effect of semantic relatedness over and abovethe effect of associative relatedness. The second issue is how difference insemantic overlap between two words affects priming. In order to specify thesemantic overlap we introduce five relation types that differ in number ofcommon semantic components. Three relation types (synonyms, antonyms andhyponyms) represent semantic relatedness while two relation types representassociative relatedness, with negligible or no semantic relatedness. Finally,the third issue addressed in this study is whether there is a symmetricpriming effect if we swap the position of prime and target, i.e. whether thedirection of relatedness between two words affects priming. In two lexicaldecision experiments we presented five types of word pairs. In bothexperiments we obtained stronger facilitation for pairs that were bothsemantically and associatively related. Closer inspection showed that largersemantic overlap between words is paralleled by greater facilitation effect.The effects did not change when prime and target swap their position,indicating that the observed facilitation effects are symmetrical. Thisoutcome complies with predictions of distributed models of memory.

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