In a recent meta-analysis, Lucas (2000) concluded that there is strong evidence of an overall
pure semantic priming effect but no evidence of priming based purely on association. In the …

Accessing stored knowledge is a fundamental function of the cognitive and neural
architectures of memory. Here, the authors review evidence from cognitive-behavioral …

Machine learning is a means to derive artificial intelligence by discovering patterns in
existing data. Here, we show that applying machine learning to ordinary human language …

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty
years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and …

This accessible text brings together research on word reading and comprehension
development, which are often treated separately, and provides a comprehensive and …

Behavioral experiments and a connectionist model were used to explore the use of featural
representations in the computation of word meaning. The research focused on the role of …

This study investigates outcomes of deliberate learning on vocabulary acquisition in a
second language (L2). Acquisition of 48 pseudowords was measured using the lexical …

A meta-analysis of 26 studies indicated that automatic semantic priming can occur without
association. Priming did not vary substantially with differences in variables that affect …

This paper presents the Featural and Unitary Semantic Space (FUSS) hypothesis of the
meanings of object and action words. The hypothesis, implemented in a statistical model, is …

Linguistic and psycholinguistic theories differ with regard to the conceptual content of verbs'
thematic roles. In Experiments 1 and 2, single-word priming was used to demonstrate that …