Is phonological information mapped onto semantic information in a one-to-one manner?

Full Abstract

Spoken word recognition models have to explain the influence of mismatching information on lexical activation. The effect of mismatching information is usually addressed with cross-modal semantic priming experiments using priming effects as a measure of the degree of lexical activation. Pseudowords phonologically related to a semantic associate of the target, e.g., *domato-PAPRIKA, serve as primes. Mismatch effects at the word form level are supposed to percolate unaltered to the semantic level. We show that cross-modal semantic priming might underestimate activation at the word form level. Targets (e.g., PAPRIKA) were preceded by either phonologically related pseudoword primes (e.g., *baprika) or semantically related pseudoword primes (e.g., *domato). Different priming and RT patterns were obtained for the two priming relations.Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).

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Author information

Author/s: Bölte, Jens (J); Coenen, Else (E);

Affiliation: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany. boelte(-atsign-)psy.uni-muenster.de

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Brain and language (Brain Lang), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2002 Apr-Jun; vol 81 (issue 1-3) : pp 384-97

Dates: Created 2002/06/25; Completed 2002/07/25; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12081407, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Cognition
Humans
Phonetics

Psycholinguistics - methods
Reaction Time
Semantics

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