The Goal-Dependent Nature of Automatic Semantic Priming

Lin Khern A. Chia, Jon A. Willits

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Abstract

Despite the fact that priming is one of the most studied phenomena in cognitive psychology, many questions remain about exactly when, why and under what task conditions we ought to observe priming in the lab, and what types of relationships between words or concepts reliably lead to priming. This project contrasted two priming experiments where the primary manipulation was the decision the subjects were making about words (as well as manipulating other factors, like relatedness proportion, known to affect priming). We found evidence that: 1) automatic priming for semantically related words does happen under some conditions, but 2) semantic priming, and whether it happens independent of association, is dependent on the task in which participants are engaged. These results provide evidence for the context sensitive nature of the activation of semantic memory.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Subtitle of host publicationCreativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019
PublisherThe Cognitive Science Society
Pages1493-1498
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)0991196775, 9780991196777
StatePublished - 2019
Event41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: Jul 24 2019Jul 27 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019

Conference

Conference41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period7/24/197/27/19

Keywords

  • Associative Priming
  • Explicit Awareness
  • Goals
  • Semantic Priming
  • Semantic memory

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

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