Stroop and semantic congruity effects in comparative judgments

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Algom
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Congruity

scholarly journals Semantic congruity effects in perceptual comparisons

1989 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 439-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Petrusic ◽  
Joseph V. Baranski
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Congruity

Unconscious semantic access: A case against a hyperpowerful unconscious

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Holender ◽  
Katia Duscherer
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Response Competition ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Semantic Congruity ◽  
Semantic Access

We analyze some of the recent evidence for unconscious semantic access stemming from tasks that, although based on a priming procedure, generate semantic congruity effects because of response competition, not semantic priming effects. We argue that such effects cannot occur without at least some glimpses of awareness about the identity and the meaning of a significant proportion of the primes.

A Semantic Congruity Effect in Children's Acquisition of High and Low

1998 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigette Oliver Ryalls ◽  
Emily Winslow ◽  
Linda B. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Congruity Effect ◽  
Semantic Congruity ◽  
Semantic Congruity Effect

An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Analysis of Semantic Congruity and Repetition Effects in Sentences

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mireille Besson ◽  
Marta Kutas ◽  
Cyma Van Petten
Keyword(s):  
Word Frequency ◽  
Lexical Processing ◽  
Recall Performance ◽  
Distributed Processing ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Cued Recall ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Repetition Effects ◽  
Semantic Congruity ◽  
Open Class

In two experiments, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and cued-recall performance measures were used to examine the consequences of semantic congruity and repetition on the processing of words in sentences. A set of sentences, half of which ended with words that rendered them semantically incongruous, was repeated either once (eg, Experiment 1) or twice (e.g., Experiment 2). After each block of sentences, subjects were given all of the sentences and asked to recall the missing final words. Repetition benefited the recall of both congruous and incongruous endings and reduced the amplitude and shortened the duration of the N400 component of the ERP more for (1) incongruous than congruous words, (2) open class than closed class words, and (3) low-frequency than high-frequency open class words. For incongruous sentence terminations, repetition increased the amplitude of a broad positive component subsequent to the N400. Assuming additive factors logic and a traditional view of the lexicon, our N400 results indicate that in addition to their singular effects, semantic congruiry, repetition, and word frequency converge to influence a common stage of lexical processing. Within a parallel distributed processing framework, our results argue for substantial temporal and spatial overlap in the activation of codes subserving word recognition so as to yield the observed interactions of repetition with semantic congruity, lexical class, and word frequency effects.

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