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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450697103321

Autore

McNamara Timothy P

Titolo

Semantic priming [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives from memory and word recognition / / Timothy P. Mcnamara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Psychology Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-26775-5

9786610267750

0-203-33800-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Essays in cognitive psychology

Disciplina

401/.43/019

Soggetti

Semantics - Psychological aspects

Priming (Psychology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedications; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. What Is Semantic Priming and Why Should Anyone Care About It?; 2. Spreading Activation Models; 3. Becker's Verification Model; 4. Compound-Cue Models; 5. Distributed Network Models; 6. Multistage Activation Models; 7. Other Models; 8. Methodological Issues; 9. Automatic Versus Strategic Priming; 10. Associative Versus "Pure" Semantic Priming; 11. Mediated Versus Direct Priming; 12. Effects of Lag; 13. Forward Versus Backward Priming; 14. Conscious Versus Unconscious Priming; 15. Prime-Task Effect

16. List Context Effects17. Word Frequency, Stimulus Quality, and Stimulus Repetition; 18. Cognitive Neuroscience of Semantic Priming; 19. What Have We Learned About Semantic Priming and What Does the Future Hold?; Appendix; Notes; References; Index of Names; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge representations. Semantic Priming: Perspectives from Memory and Word Recognition



examines empirical and theoretical advancements in the understanding of semantic priming, providing a succinct, in-depth review of this important phenomenon, framed in terms of models of memory and models of word recognition.The first section examines mo