Attention mechanisms mediate the syntactic priming effect in auditory word identification.
| Number | 905 |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Drawer | 17 |
| Entry Date | 07/16/1998 |
| Authors | Deutsch, Avital, and Bentin, Shlomo. |
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| Publication | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28 (5), 595-607. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0905.pdf |
| Abstract | The syntactic priming effect and the involvement of attention in that process were investigated by testing identification of white noise-masked Hebrew words. Targets were either syntactically congruent or syntactically incongruent with the structure of the sentence. Relative to a neutral condition, similar facilitation and inhibition was found for congruent and incongruent targets, respectively. When syntactic congruency was blocked, the inhibition was attenuated, whereas the facilitation remained the same. A 350-ms silent interstimulus interval between context and target increased inhibition without affecting facilitation. We suggest that both the facilitation and the inhibition effects of syntactic priming are based on a veiled controlled process of generating expectations. The inhibition results from a controlled process of reevaluation that requires additional attention resources. |
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