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AMORCAGE SEMANTIQUE [1 record]

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Record 1 2012-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
CONT

[The authors] used the lexical decision task to show that lexical decision responses are made more quickly when the current word is related to the previous word. In other words people more quickly recognize DOCTOR as a word when it follows the word NURSE than if it follows the word CHAIR. The effect came to be known as "semantic priming" and is often cited as evidence for the associative strength between concepts in semantic memory.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

L'amorçage sémantique a lieu entre deux mots associés par leur signification. Par exemple «docteur» et «infirmière» sont associés sémantiquement car les professions désignées sont similaires.

Spanish

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