Non-hyperlexic children read words primed with a related image faster than non-primed words while hyperlexics read them at the same pace.
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Using a lexical decision task with acronyms as priming words, researchers saw that acronyms could in fact prime other related information.
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But the priming words only helped if the " target " showed up a tenth of a second or less after the primer.
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To test the unconscious, students later saw 15 consonants before each " target " word, then a " priming word " followed by 15 more consonants.
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Even though the participants knew that the prime words were always belonged to their French meaning, they were still affected by the English meaning of the homographic prime words.
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Each list of 10 priming words had between two and eight words that were phonologically related to the correct answer of the question, with the remaining words being unrelated.
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Even though the participants knew that the prime words were always belonged to their French meaning, they were still affected by the English meaning of the homographic prime words.
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Subjects are shown a list of words in which a prime word is either associatively related to a target word ( e . g . bee and honey ), semantically related ( e . g . sugar and honey ) or a direct repetition ( e . g . honey and honey ).