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N400 effects for category exemplars primed by category labels

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Bermeitinger, Christina
Frings, Christian
Wentura, Dirk

Abstract / Description

We analyzed the ERP correlates of a category priming task. In particular, participants had to judge the orthography of a target word that followed a shortly presented but clearly visible prime word. Primes and targets had a superordinate-subordinate relation (FLOWER-tulip). The behavioral effects corresponded to the typical finding – participants reacted faster to targets which were preceded by related primes (e.g., FLOWER-tulip) compared to unrelated primes (e.g., BIRD-tulip). Accordingly, the ERPs showed that unrelated prime-target trials elicited more negative going waveforms at central recording sites as compared to related trials in the N400 time window. The behavioral and the N400 priming effect were significantly correlated, thereby indicating the functional character of the ERP correlate.

Keyword(s)

priming semantisches Priming ereigniskorrelierte Potenziale N400 Kategoriepriming semantic priming category priming superordinate-subordinate relation event-related potentials N400

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Date of first publication

2010

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  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Bermeitinger, Christina
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Frings, Christian
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Wentura, Dirk
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2022-11-17T11:06:07Z
  • Made available on
    2010-04-08
  • Made available on
    2015-12-01T10:30:48Z
  • Made available on
    2022-11-17T11:06:07Z
  • Date of first publication
    2010
  • Abstract / Description
    We analyzed the ERP correlates of a category priming task. In particular, participants had to judge the orthography of a target word that followed a shortly presented but clearly visible prime word. Primes and targets had a superordinate-subordinate relation (FLOWER-tulip). The behavioral effects corresponded to the typical finding – participants reacted faster to targets which were preceded by related primes (e.g., FLOWER-tulip) compared to unrelated primes (e.g., BIRD-tulip). Accordingly, the ERPs showed that unrelated prime-target trials elicited more negative going waveforms at central recording sites as compared to related trials in the N400 time window. The behavioral and the N400 priming effect were significantly correlated, thereby indicating the functional character of the ERP correlate.
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  • Persistent Identifier
    https://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-psydok-26042
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11780/634
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.9097
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Keyword(s)
    priming
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    semantisches Priming
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  • Keyword(s)
    ereigniskorrelierte Potenziale
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    N400
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Kategoriepriming
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  • Keyword(s)
    semantic priming
    en
  • Keyword(s)
    category priming
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  • Keyword(s)
    superordinate-subordinate relation
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  • Keyword(s)
    event-related potentials
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  • Keyword(s)
    N400
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    N400 effects for category exemplars primed by category labels
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  • DRO type
    report
  • Visible tag(s)
    PsyDok