Semantic, repetition and rime priming between spoken words: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Author(s): Besson, M., Fonteneau, E., Castro, S. L.

Journal/Book: Biol Psychol. 1998; 48: PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, Netherlands. Elsevier Science BV. 183-204.

Abstract: Semantic, phonological and repetition priming for auditorily presented words were examined, using both behavioral reaction times (RTs) and electrophysiological event-related potentials (ERPs) measures. On critical trials, a word prime was followed by a word target that was semantically or phonologically related (rime) or not related (control) to the prime. Pairs of word-pseudoword items served as fillers. Participants were asked to respond to word targets in the RT experiment and to pseudowords in the ERP experiment. In each experiment stimuli were presented once and then repeated in the very same way. RTs were found to be fastest for semantic, intermediate for rime and slowest for control targets; large repetition effects occurred for all targets. ERPs results showed that both semantic and phonological priming influenced the same component, namely the N400, whose amplitude was smallest to semantic, intermediate to rime and largest to control targets; repetition effects were only found for semantic trials. .

Note: Article Radeau M, Free Univ Brussels, Lapse, CP 191, 50 AV F Roosevelt, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM

Keyword(s): semantic priming; phonological priming; auditory word recognition; event related potentials (ERPs); N400; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS; LEXICAL DECISION; BRAIN POTENTIALS; RECOGNITION; SENTENCES; SPEECH; TASK; FACILITATION; ACTIVATION; COMPONENTS

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