Co-occurrence frequency evaluated with large language corpora boosts semantic priming effects |
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Authors: | Angèle Brunellière Laetitia Perre ThiMai Tran Isabelle Bonnotte |
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Affiliation: | 1. UMR 9193–SCALab–Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, University of Lille, CNRS, Lille, Franceangele.brunelliere@univ-lille3.fr;3. UMR 9193–SCALab–Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, University of Lille, CNRS, Lille, France;4. CNRS, UMR 8163–STL–Savoirs Textes Langage, University of Lille, Lille, France |
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Abstract: | In recent decades, many computational techniques have been developed to analyse the contextual usage of words in large language corpora. The present study examined whether the co-occurrence frequency obtained from large language corpora might boost purely semantic priming effects. Two experiments were conducted: one with conscious semantic priming, the other with subliminal semantic priming. Both experiments contrasted three semantic priming contexts: an unrelated priming context and two related priming contexts with word pairs that are semantically related and that co-occur either frequently or infrequently. In the conscious priming presentation (166-ms stimulus-onset asynchrony, SOA), a semantic priming effect was recorded in both related priming contexts, which was greater with higher co-occurrence frequency. In the subliminal priming presentation (66-ms SOA), no significant priming effect was shown, regardless of the related priming context. These results show that co-occurrence frequency boosts pure semantic priming effects and are discussed with reference to models of semantic network. |
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Keywords: | Co-occurrence frequency purely semantic relation semantic priming visual lexical decision task |
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