Structural priming, the tendency to repeat previously uttered syntactic structures, can give insight into human language processing and acquisition. We report two corpus-based studies of children’s structural priming that test the following claim of the item-based account of language acquisition: as older children generalize over structures, priming increases with age. A hypothesis derived from...

The recently introduced implicit priming task (Meyer, 1990, 1991) for the study of word production processes has already provided an impressive number of findings which are taken as the main support for the principle of serial encoding in production. However, prior results can as well be explained by an episodic memory retrieval account which does not resource to production processes. In experi...

Minimalist theories of spoken language planning hold that articulation starts when the first speech segment has been planned, whereas non-minimalist theories assume larger units (e.g., Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999a). Three experiments are reported, which were designed to distinguish between these views using a new hybrid task that factorially manipulated preparation and auditory priming of sp...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Masked semantic priming in cocktail party situation The present study aimed at testing automatic semantic processing in the auditory modality using the cocktail party situation. Participants had to perform a lexical decision task on a target item embedded in a multi-talker babble. This babbl...

INTRODUCTION Previous ex vivo experiments by others suggest that elevated body temperature can prime the respiratory burst of human neutrophils. The mechanism of the priming phenomenon induced by temperature has not been addressed so far. Furthermore, the priming temperature range was not defined. MATERIAL/METHODS In the present study we explored ,under in vitro conditions, the influence of f...

Measuring response times has been a staple for evaluating masked semantic priming. Its efficacy, however, has been challenged on several grounds — reported effect sizes of these studies are relatively small, and priming effects pertaining to response time measures are difficult to be replicated. Here, we report a complementary method — recording trajectories of a computer cursor. Participants j...

A masked nonword prime generated by transposing adjacent inner letters in a word (e.g., jugde) facilitates the recognition of the target word (JUDGE) more than a prime in which the relevant letters are replaced by different letters (e.g., junpe). This transposed-letter (TL) priming effect has been widely interpreted as evidence that the coding of letter position is flexible, rather than precise...

In previous research (Kim, Porter, & Goolkasian, 2014), we examined conceptual priming within and across modalities and found that target categorization was facilitated by the advanced presentation of conceptually related exemplars, but there were differences in effectiveness when pictures and environmental sounds appeared as primes. The present study follows up this research by manipulating th...

Both visual object priming and motion priming have been reported independently, but the interactions between the two are still largely unexplored. Here we investigated this question using a novel type of SFM stimuli, 3-D helixes, and found that the motion direction perception of an ambiguous helix can be biased by the motion direction of a preceding SFM stimulus - a classic motion priming effec...

In task-switching research, one process that has been implicated as a possible source of switch cost is repetition priming. In four experiments, an examination was made of the claim that repetition priming dissipates over the interval between trials and thereby causes switch cost to decrease with increases in the response-cue interval (RCI). In Experiments 1 and 2, RCI was manipulated within pa...