Van Gompel, Roger
(2022).
Effect of Memory Task on Structural Priming, 2017-2022.
[Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex:
UK Data Service.
10.5255/UKDA-SN-855904
In two structural priming experiments, we investigated to what extent a secondary task affected structural priming. In Experiment 1, participants carried out a structural priming task under the guise of a memory task (e.g., Bock, 1986; Bock, Loebell & Morey, 1992): on some trials, participants saw a sentence and had to indicate whether they had seen it previously. In Experiment 2, there was no such memory task. In both experiments, we observed structural priming and a lexical boost (stronger priming when the verb in prime and target was the same), but there was no evidence that either lexically independent structural priming or the lexical boost was affected by the task.
Data description (abstract)
Participants read aloud either a prepositional object (PO) or double object (DO) prime sentence, followed by a target fragment that they could complete using either a PO or DO structure using pictures that were presented simultaneously with the target fragment. We also manipulated whether the verb in the prime and target was the same or different. In Experiment 1, 25% of all reading trials (i.e. without picture) re-appeared two to six sentences later, either as an identical sentence or with a slight change in the wording. Participants were asked to read them aloud and had to indicate whether the sentence was identical to a previous sentence or not. In Experiment 2, the same sentences re-appeared, but participants did not have a memory task and simply read them aloud.
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| Sponsors: |
Economic and Social Research Council
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| Grant reference: |
ES/P001866/1
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| Topic classification: |
Psychology
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| Keywords: |
LINGUISTICS, PSYCHOLOGY
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| Project title: |
An Experimental Investigation of Syntactic Priming and the Lexical Boost in Language Production
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| Grant holders: |
Roger Van Gompel, Leila Kantola
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| Project dates: |
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| 1 August 2017 | 31 May 2022 |
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| Date published: |
18 Aug 2022 12:01
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| Last modified: |
18 Aug 2022 12:01
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| Collection period: |
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| 1 August 2017 | 31 May 2022 |
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| Geographical area: |
United Kingdom |
| Country: |
United Kingdom |
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No Spatial Unit |
| Data collection method: |
Behavioural experiment. Participants were recruited using the Prolific or SONA Systems and tested online using the experiment software Gorilla. They were all native speakers of English, residents of the UK, had no language- or literacy-related disorders and were between 18 and 35 years of age. Forty-eight participants took part in each experiment. The study was approved by the University of Dundee ethics committee and all participants gave informed consent to take part in the study. In both experiments, participants first read aloud a prime sentence and then produced a target sentence by describing a picture using a word or words written underneath it. |
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Individual |
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Numeric, Text |
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Experimental data
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| Resource language: |
English |
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| Data sourcing, processing and preparation: |
Participants were recruited using either Prolific or SONA and tested online. Participants' recorded productions of the target sentences were transcribed and scored. They were scored according to whether the target sentence fragment was completed using a prepositional object or double object structure.
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| Notes on access: |
The Data Collection is available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access.
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| Publisher: |
UK Data Service
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| Last modified: |
18 Aug 2022 12:01
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