An RT distribution analysis of relatedness proportion effects in lexical decision and semantic categorization reveals different mechanisms.

The magnitude of the semantic priming effect is known to increase as the proportion of related prime-target pairs in an experiment increases. This relatedness proportion (RP) effect was studied in a lexical decision task at a short prime-target stimulus onset asynchrony (240 ms), which is widely ass...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 99 - 111
Main Authors: Wit, Bianca, Kinoshita, Sachiko
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Jan2015
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          ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) and Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia
          ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) and Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia
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        Analysis of variance
        Cognition
        Decision making
        Semantics
        Undergraduates
        Reaction time
        Research funding
        Phonological awareness
        Descriptive statistics
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          Undergraduates
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          Reaction time
          Research funding
          Phonological awareness
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        Lexical decision
        Relatedness proportion
        Retrospective semantic matching
        RT distribution analysis
        Semantic priming
        Lexical decision
        Relatedness proportion
        Retrospective semantic matching
        RT distribution analysis
        Semantic priming
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