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Spruyt, Adriaan; De Houwer, Jan; Everaert, Tom; Hermans, Dirk – Cognition, 2012
We examined whether semantic activation by subliminally presented stimuli is dependent upon the extent to which participants assign attention to specific semantic stimulus features and stimulus dimensions. Participants pronounced visible target words that were preceded by briefly presented, masked prime words. Both affective and non-affective…
Descriptors: Priming, Semantics, Attention Control, Attention
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Roelofs, Ardi; Piai, Vitoria; Schriefers, Herbert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
E. Dhooge and R. J. Hartsuiker (2010) reported experiments showing that picture naming takes longer with low- than high-frequency distractor words, replicating M. Miozzo and A. Caramazza (2003). In addition, they showed that this distractor-frequency effect disappears when distractors are masked or preexposed. These findings were taken to refute…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Experiments, Semantics