EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, LEXICAL DECISION AND SEMANTIC PRIMING
EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, LEXICAL DECISION AND SEMANTIC PRIMING
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DOI:
10.1016/0013-4694(85)90008-2
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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通讯作者:
WOOD, CC
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作者:
BENTIN, S;MCCARTHY, G;WOOD, CC
ERP [event-related potential] were recorded during a lexical decision task to investigate electrophysiological concomitants of semantic priming. The stimuli were 240 words and 240 nonwords presented 1/trial at a fixed intertrial interval. Subjects were required to classify each stimulus as a word or nonword by pressing 1 of 2 response buttons. ERP were recorded from 14 scalp locations, the right suborbital ridge and the left earlobe, all referred to a balanced noncephalic reference. RT [reaction time] and error data confirmed that semantic priming occurred under the conditions employed: primed words (those preceded by a semantically related word) were identified as words faster and more accurately than were identified as words faster and more accurately than were unprimed words (those preceded by semantically unrelated words or non-words). ERP for all stimulus types were characterized by a large positivity peaking between 550 and 650 ms, preceded by a negative-going deflection peaking at .apprx. 400 ms. ERP for primed and unprimed words differed significantly, diverging 200-250 ms following stimulus onset, reaching a maximum near the peak of the negative-going deflection at 400 ms. These differences were observed at locations over both hemispheres and were maximal in the centroparietal region. Although P300 latency differences between primed and unprimed words were also obtained, the priming effect on ERP at shorter latencies could not be explained solely by P300 latency effects. Possible relationships between these ERP concomitants of semantic priming and P300, N200 and N400 were discussed.