The direction of masked auditory category priming correlates with participants' prime discrimination ability

被引：1

作者：

Bermeitinger, Christina ^{[1
]}

Wentura, Dirk ^{[2
]}

Koppermann, Christopher ^{[2
]}

Hauser, Micha ^{[2
]}

Grass, Benjamin ^{[2
]}

Frings, Christian ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Hildesheim, Dept Psychol, D-31141 Hildesheim, Germany

[2] Univ Saarland, Dept Psychol, D-66123 Saarbrucken, Germany

[3] Univ Trier, Dept Psychol, D-54286 Trier, Germany

来源：

ADVANCES IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY | 2012年 / 8卷 / 03期

关键词：

semantic priming; masked priming; auditory priming; semantic memory; negative semantic priming effect; category priming; auditory primes and targets;

D O I：

10.5709/acp-0116-y

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Semantic priming refers to the phenomenon that participants typically respond faster to targets following semantically related primes as compared to semantically unrelated primes. In contrast, Wentura and Frings (2005) found a negatively signed priming effect (i.e., faster responses to semantically unrelated as compared to semantically related targets) when they used (a) a special masking technique for the primes and (b) categorically related prime-target-pairs (e.g., fruit-apple). The negatively signed priming effect was most pronounced for participants with random prime discrimination performance, whereas participants with high prime discrimination performance showed a positive effect. In the present study we analyzed the after-effects of masked category primes in audition. A comparable pattern of results as in the visual modality emerged: The poorer the individual prime discrimination, the more negative is the semantic priming effect. This result is interpreted as evidence for a common mechanism causing the semantic priming effect in vision as well as in audition instead of a perceptual mechanism only working in the visual domain.

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页码：210 / 217

页数：8