An event-related brain potential analysis of visual word priming effects
An event-related brain potential analysis of visual word priming effects
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DOI:
10.1006/brln.1999.2284
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发表时间:
2000-04-01
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2.5
通讯作者:
Chwilla, DJ
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作者:
Brown, CM;Hagoort, P;Chwilla, DJ
Two experiments are reported that provide evidence on tack-induced effects during visual lexical processing in a prime-target semantic priming paradigm. The research focuses on target expectancy effects by manipulating the proportion of semantically related and unrelated word pairs. In Experiment 1, a lexical decision task was used and reaction times (RTs) and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were obtained. In Experiment 2, subjects silently read the stimuli, without any additional task demands, and ERPs were recorded. The RT and ERP results of Experiment 1 demonstrate that an expectancy mechanism contributed to the priming effect when a high proportion of related word pairs was presented. The ERP results of Experiment 2 show that in the absence of extraneous task requirements, an expectancy mechanism is not active. However, a standard ERP semantic priming effect was obtained in Experiment 2. The combined results show that priming effects due to relatedness proportion are induced by task demands and are not a standard aspect of online lexical processing. (C) 2000 Academic Press.