Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
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T1 - Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
AU - Author Collaboration of "Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages"
AU - Buchanan, Erin M.
AU - Cuccolo, Kelly
AU - Heyman, Tom
AU - van Berkel, Niels
AU - Coles, Nicholas A.
AU - Iyer, Aishwarya
AU - Peters, Kim
AU - van ’t Veer, A. E.
AU - Montefinese, Maria
AU - Maxwell, Nicholas P.
AU - Taylor, Jack E.
AU - Valentine, Kathrene D.
AU - Arriaga, Patrícia
AU - Barzykowski, Krystian
AU - Boucher, Leanne
AU - Collins, W. Matthew
AU - Vaidis, David C.
AU - Aczel, Balazs
AU - Al-Hoorie, Ali H.
AU - Ambrosini, Ettore
AU - Besson, Théo
AU - Burin, Debora I.
AU - Butt, Muhammad Mussaffa
AU - Clarke, A. J.Benjamin
AU - Daryani, Yalda
AU - El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam
AU - Elsherif, Mahmoud M.
AU - Fernández-López, Maria
AU - Ferreira, Paulo Roberto dos Santos
AU - Freitag, Raquel Meister Ko
AU - Gattei, Carolina A.
AU - Godbersen, Hendrik
AU - Grim, Philip A.
AU - Halama, Peter
AU - Havan, Patrik
AU - Irrazabal, Natalia C.
AU - Isloi, Chris
AU - Iversen, Rebecca Kvisler
AU - Julliard, Yoann
AU - Karaaslan, Aslan
AU - Kohút, Michal
AU - Kohútová, Veronika
AU - Kos, Julija
AU - Kosachenko, Alexandra I.
AU - Lima, Tiago Jessé Souza de
AU - Mak, Matthew H.C.
AU - Manouilidou, Christina
AU - Sevincer, A. Timur
AU - Tschense, Monika
AU - Wallot, Sebastian
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. Although previous studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations, they have suffered from small sample sizes and a lack of linguistic and cultural diversity. In this Registered Report, we measured the size and the variability of the semantic priming effect across 19 languages (n = 25,163 participants analysed) by creating the largest available database of semantic priming values using an adaptive sampling procedure. We found evidence for semantic priming in terms of differences in response latencies between related word-pair conditions and unrelated word-pair conditions. Model comparisons showed that the inclusion of a random intercept for language improved model fit, providing support for variability in semantic priming across languages. This study highlights the robustness and variability of semantic priming across languages and provides a rich, linguistically diverse dataset for further analysis. The Stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 15 July 2022. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at https://osf.io/u5bp6 (registration) or https://osf.io/q4fjy (preprint version 6, 31 May 2022).
AB - Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. Although previous studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations, they have suffered from small sample sizes and a lack of linguistic and cultural diversity. In this Registered Report, we measured the size and the variability of the semantic priming effect across 19 languages (n = 25,163 participants analysed) by creating the largest available database of semantic priming values using an adaptive sampling procedure. We found evidence for semantic priming in terms of differences in response latencies between related word-pair conditions and unrelated word-pair conditions. Model comparisons showed that the inclusion of a random intercept for language improved model fit, providing support for variability in semantic priming across languages. This study highlights the robustness and variability of semantic priming across languages and provides a rich, linguistically diverse dataset for further analysis. The Stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 15 July 2022. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at https://osf.io/u5bp6 (registration) or https://osf.io/q4fjy (preprint version 6, 31 May 2022).
KW - Psychology
KW - Educational science
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105017844574&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x
DO - 10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 40993402
AN - SCOPUS:105017844574
JO - Nature Human Behaviour
JF - Nature Human Behaviour
SN - 2397-3374
ER -