Spelling Out the Science: Perceptual Effects of Linguistic Category Priming Reconsidered among Dutch and Brazilian Samples

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans IJzerman ◽  
Nina Regenberg ◽  
Justin Saddlemyer ◽  
Sander L. Koole
Keyword(s):  
Category Priming

Solving Anagrams: Category Priming and the Differential Availability of Category Solutions

1979 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Schuberth ◽  
Kathryn T. Spoehr ◽  
Robert J. Haertel
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Memory ◽  
Solution Word ◽  
Anagram Solution ◽  
Taxonomic Category ◽  
Category Priming ◽  
The Relationship

An experiment was performed to test the hypothesis that the effect of category name priming on anagram solving varies with the strength of the relationship between the solution word and the priming category. Subjects solved anagrams of taxonomic category instances under primed or unprimed conditions. In the primed condition, the name of the taxonomic category from which the solution word was chosen was provided on each trial. Priming was shown to facilitate anagram solution and the extent of this facilitation was directly related to the instance dominance of the solution word in the priming category. The results were discussed in terms of current models of semantic memory.

Orthographic Overlap and Category Size in Unconscious Category Priming

2008 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 350-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Word Meaning ◽  
Category Size ◽  
Category Priming ◽  
Whole Word ◽  
Comparable Magnitude ◽  
Novel Words

Van den Bussche and Reynvoet (2007, Experiment 1 ) report unconscious priming of comparable magnitude from novel words belonging to small and large categories, evidence that they interpret as demonstrating independence from category size of priming that involves semantic analysis. Three experiments raise the possibility that the findings in Experiment 1c of Van den Bussche and Reynvoet reflect subword processing, not semantic analysis. In Experiments 1 and 2, priming was obtained from primes and targets that shared approximately the same degree of subword features as in Experiment 1c of Van den Bussche and Reynvoet, but no priming occurred when sharing of features was minimized. Experiment 3 demonstrated priming driven by subword features when those features were set in opposition to whole-word meaning. These results indicate that orthographic overlap must be considered a potentially important confound in findings that ostensibly support priming mediated by semantic analysis.

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