Semantic Priming

<p>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.</p><p>The first section examines models of semantic priming including spreading activation models the verification model compound-cue models distributed network models and multistage activation models (e.g. interactive-activation model).</p><p>The second section examines issues and findings that have played an especially important role in testing models of priming and includes chapters on the following topics: methodological issues (e.g. counterbalancing of materials choice of priming baselines); automatic vs. strategic priming; associative vs. “pure” semantic priming; mediated priming; long-term semantic priming; backward priming; unconscious priming; the prime-task effect; list context effects; effects of word frequency stimulus quality and stimulus repetition; and the cognitive neuroscience of semantic priming.</p><p>The book closes with a summary and a discussion of promising new research directions.</p><p>The volume will be of interest to a wide range of researchers and students in the cognitive sciences and neurosciences.</p>