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Topolinski, Sascha; Deutsch, Roland – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
The present research demonstrates that very brief variations in affect, being around 1 s in length and changing from trial to trial independently from semantic relatedness of primes and targets, modulate the amount of semantic priming. Implementing consonant and dissonant chords (Experiments 1 and 5), naturalistic sounds (Experiment 2), and visual…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Semantics, Language Research, Priming
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MacKenzie, Heather; Graham, Susan A.; Curtin, Suzanne – Developmental Science, 2011
We examined whether 12-month-old infants privilege words over other linguistic stimuli in an associative learning task. Sixty-four infants were presented with sets of either word-object, communicative sound-object, or consonantal sound-object pairings until they habituated. They were then tested on a "switch" in the sound to determine whether they…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Infants, Associative Learning
Forster, Kenneth I.; Ryder, Leonie A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Research supported by a grant from the Australian Research Grants Committee. (DS)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Charts, Experiments, Language Research