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An experiment was conducted to test for mediated priming between semantic-phonological associates (e.g., light-damp; the mediator is lamp). Subjects made lexical decisions on single letter strings. Target words (e.g., damp) were immediately preceded by either mediated primes (e.g., light) or by unrelated primes (e.g., queen). Test lists did not contain directly related items (e.g., light- lamp). Consistent with previous findings, there was no evidence of semantic-phonological mediated priming in lexical decisions.
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McNamara, T.P., Gray, S.A. More evidence that mediated priming does not occur between semantic-phonological associates. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 28, 199–200 (1990). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334002
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334002