Küper Kristina, Heil Martin
Heinrich-Heine-University, Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2008 Nov;129(3):325-31. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.08.009. Epub 2008 Oct 2.
The normally robust semantic priming effect observed in lexical decision is usually reduced to the point of being absent, when a letter search has to be performed on the prime. It has been argued that semantic activation is thus not an automatic process but rather cognitively controlled and therefore adaptable to task demands. We examined the effects of letter search priming on pronunciation times and found a reliable semantic priming effect, following letter search that was not affected at all relative to a standard condition, where participants silently read the prime. Thus the nature of the prime task did not seem to affect the processing mode employed, semantic access occurred even though attention was focused on surface properties of the prime.
在词汇判断中通常观察到的强大语义启动效应，当必须对启动词进行字母搜索时，通常会减弱到不存在的程度。有人认为，语义激活不是一个自动过程，而是受认知控制的，因此能够适应任务需求。我们研究了字母搜索启动对发音时间的影响，发现在字母搜索之后存在可靠的语义启动效应，与参与者默读启动词的标准条件相比，该效应完全没有受到影响。因此，启动任务的性质似乎并未影响所采用的加工模式，即使注意力集中在启动词的表面属性上，语义通达仍然会发生。
