Priming and lexical interference in infancy

• Main Authors: Styles, Suzy J., Arias-Trejo, Natalia, Plunkett, Kim
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Phonetics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102503; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24281; http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2008/forms/index.htm
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Three experiments investigate priming effects in a looking task for infants in their second year. Infants hear two words (prime, target) in quick succession (separated by 200ms), and are presented with a picture pair (target, distracter) for 2500ms of free looking. Prime-target pairs are semanticall...