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Citation

Balota DA, Black SR, Cheney M. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1992; 18(2): 485-502.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1593231

Abstract

Three experiments addressed the distinction between automatic and attentional mechanisms underlying semantic priming effects by factorially crossing prime-target relatedness, expectancy, and SOA in a task (pronunciation) that minimized postlexical checking processes. Also, possible age-related (young vs. older adults) differences in the automatic and attentional mechanisms were addressed. Across all experiments there was evidence of a Relatedness x Expectancy x SOA interaction, which is inconsistent with the notion of independent automatic and attentional mechanisms in semantic priming and the notion of a self-encapsulated modular lexicon. The results also indicated age-related differences in the build-up of the expectancy effect across SOAs when the prime was visually available for only 200 ms, independently of the prime-target SOA (Experiments 1 and 3), but not when the prime was visually available throughout the SOA (Experiment 2).


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