Do semantic and associative priming effects show age-related change?

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis P. Tam ◽  
Meredith A. Shafto ◽  
Billi Randall ◽  
Lorraine K. Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Associative Priming ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Age Related

Age-related priming effects in social judgments.

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Hess ◽  
Karen A. McGee ◽  
Stephen M. Woodburn ◽  
Cheryl A. Bolstad
Keyword(s):  
Social Judgments ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Age Related

Accessing morphosyntactic information is preserved at old age, except for irregulars

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Reifegerste ◽  
Harald Clahsen
Keyword(s):  
Older Individuals ◽  
Multiple Features ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Memory Decline ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Efficient Access ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
Morphological Priming ◽  
Word Forms ◽  
Complex Phenomena

Abstract The current study examined morphological priming in older individuals using two complex phenomena of German inflection. Study 1 examined inflected adjectives which encode multiple morphosyntactic features using regular affixes. Study 2 targeted inflected verb forms which also encode multiple features, but in this case using idiosyncratic stem variants. Study 1 revealed priming effects indicating efficient access of morphosyntactic features from inflected word forms with regular affixes. Study 2 showed that the same individuals were less efficient at accessing morphosyntactic features from marked stems. We argue that this contrast reflects age-related memory decline, which affects feature access from (lexically conditioned) stem variants more than feature access from lexically unconditioned regular forms.

Identity Primes Produce Facilitation in a Colour Naming Task

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 957-1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer S. Burt
Keyword(s):  
Low Frequency ◽  
Naming Task ◽  
Initial Letter ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Associative Priming ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Attentional Effect ◽  
Letter Case ◽  
Identity Priming ◽  
Naming Latencies

Five experiments examined associative or identity priming effects in a colour-naming task with colour-neutral words. In Experiment 1, subjects instructed to read the prime silently showed no associative priming effect but a colour-naming facilitation with identity priming. In Experiment 2, the typical associative priming interference in colour naming was demonstrated in subjects recalling the prime word, but not in subjects reading the prime silently, whereas associative primes facilitated word naming regardless of the prime response requirement. The remaining studies investigated the colour-naming facilitation observed with identity primes. Experiment 3 showed no effects on the facilitation of colour naming from varying the letter case of a silently read prime. Experiment 4 showed facilitation when subjects recalled the prime, and a target frequency effect, with faster colour-naming latencies for high- and medium- than low-frequency targets. In Experiment 5, there was no facilitation for naming the colour of target words paired with non-word primes differing in their initial letter from the target. Taken together, the results suggest that the facilitation of colour naming following identical primes reflects faster target word recognition, whereas the associative priming interference reflects an attentional effect.

scholarly journals Structural Priming Is Supported By Different Components Of Non-Declarative Memory: Evidence From Priming Across The Lifespan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelien Heyselaar ◽  
Linda Wheeldon ◽  
Katrien Segaert
Keyword(s):  
Declarative Memory ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Experimental Session ◽  
Structural Priming ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Conceptual Memory ◽  
And Performance

AbstractStructural priming is the tendency to repeat syntactic structure across sentences and can be divided into short-term (prime to immediately following target) and long-term (across an experimental session) components. This study investigates how non-declarative memory could support both the transient, short-term and the persistent, long-term structural priming effects commonly seen in the literature. We propose that these characteristics are supported by different subcomponents of non-declarative memory: Perceptual and conceptual non-declarative memory respectively. Previous studies have suggested that these subcomponents age differently, with only conceptual memory showing age-related decline. By investigating how different components of structural priming vary across the lifespan, we aim to elucidate how non-declarative memory supports two seemingly different components of structural priming. In 167 participants ranging between 20 and 85 years old, we find no change in short-term priming magnitude and performance on perceptual tasks, whereas both long-term priming and conceptual memory vary with age. We suggest therefore that the two seemingly different components of structural priming are supported by different components of non-declarative memory. These findings have important implications for theoretical accounts of structural priming.

scholarly journals Structural priming persists for one month in young adults

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelien Heyselaar ◽  
Katrien Segaert
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Implicit Learning ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Syntactic Processing ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Structural Priming ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Age Related

Implicit learning theories suggest that we update syntactic knowledge based on prior experience (e.g., (Chang et al., 2006). To determine the limits of the extent to which implicit learning can influence syntactic processing, we investigated whether structural priming effects persist up to one month post-exposure, and whether they persist less long in healthy older (compared to younger) adults. We conducted a longitudinal experiment with three sessions: Session A, session B (one week after A), and session C (four weeks after B). For young adults, we found passive priming effects to persist and accumulate across sessions (one week and four weeks). However, for older adults the effects persisted for one week but not four. This suggests that for young adults, who unlike older adults experience no age-related decline in implicit memory, the limit to the duration of structural priming persistence is longer than four weeks. In a second longitudinal experiment with two sessions one-week apart we found that priming in session A affected syntactic processing in a different, independent task in session B, both for young and older adults. Experiment 2 suggests that implicit persistence of the learned syntax is not limited to a specific context or task. Together, our findings give insight into how structural priming can contribute to language change throughout the lifespan, showing that implicit learning is a pervasive and robust mechanism that contributes to syntactic processing.

Associative Priming Effects in Color Naming

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey H. C. Marmurek ◽  
Jason Telner
Keyword(s):  
Color Naming ◽  
Associative Priming ◽  
Priming Effects

Validity of Eye Movement Methods and Indices for Capturing Semantic (Associative) Priming Effects

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anshula Odekar ◽  
Brooke Hallowell ◽  
Hans Kruse ◽  
Danny Moates ◽  
Chao-Yang Lee
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Associative Priming ◽  
Priming Effects
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