Feldman, L.B. and Milin, P. orcid.org/0000-0001-9708-7031 (2017) If priming is graded rather than all-or-none, can reactivating abstract structures be the underlying mechanism? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. e287. ISSN 0140-525X
Abstract
In our commentary on Branigan & Pickering (B&P), we start by arguing that the authors implicitly adopt several assumptions, the consequence of which is to make further claims necessary and/or sufficient. Crucially, the authors assume the existence of discrete units at various levels of linguistic granularity that then must be operated upon by combinatorial mechanisms and rules (i.e., decomposition/recomposition). They further argue that structural priming provides a powerful tool to study abstract, structural representations. We provide evidence that priming effects in production are characterized better as graded than as all-or-none and that priming need not arise from a mechanism that (re)activates a shared but abstract internal structure.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Cambridge University Press 2017. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Journalism Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2018 11:52 |
Last Modified: | 19 May 2020 11:37 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17000358 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0140525X17000358 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:132073 |