| Title: |
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages |
| Authors: |
Buchanan, Erin M; Cuccolo, Kelly; Heyman, Tom; van Berkel, Niels; Coles, Nicholas A; Iyer, Aishwarya; Peters, Kim; van ’t Veer, AE; Montefinese, Maria; Maxwell, Nicholas P; Taylor, Jack E; Valentine, Kathrene D; Arriaga, Patrícia; Barzykowski, Krystian; Boucher, Leanne; Collins, W Matthew; Vaidis, David C; Aczel, Balazs; Al-Hoorie, Ali H; Ambrosini, Ettore; Besson, Théo; Burin, Debora I; Butt, Muhammad Mussaffa; Clarke, AJ Benjamin; Daryani, Yalda; El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam; Elsherif, Mahmoud M; Fernández-López, Maria; Ferreira, Paulo Roberto dos Santos; Freitag, Raquel Meister Ko; Gattei, Carolina A; Godbersen, Hendrik; Grim, Philip A; Halama, Peter; Havan, Patrik; Irrazabal, Natalia C; Isloi, Chris; Iversen, Rebecca Kvisler; Julliard, Yoann; Karaaslan, Aslan; Kohút, Michal; Kohútová, Veronika; Kos, Julija; Kosachenko, Alexandra I; Lima, Tiago Jessé Souza de; Mak, Matthew HC; Manouilidou, Christina; Marciaga, Leonardo A; Melinna, Xiaolin Melinna; Miranda, Jacob Francisco; Morvinski, Coby; Muppoor, Aishwarya; Müjdeci, F Elif; Nielsen, Yngwie A; Oliveros, Juan Carlos; Onič, Jaš; Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta; Patel, Ishani; Pavlović, Zoran; Pažon, Blaž; Pfuhl, Gerit; Pronizius, Ekaterina; Roettger, Timo B; Ronderos, Camilo R; Ruiz-Fernandez, Susana; Senderecka, Magdalena; Solak, Çağlar; Stückler, Anna; Szekely-Copîndean, Raluca D; Taboh, Analí R; Thériault, Rémi; Tran, Ulrich S; Trecca, Fabio; Ulloa, José Luis; Varga, Marton A; Verheyen, Steven; Vesić Pavlović, Tijana; Viviani, Giada; Wang, Nan; Zivna, Kristyna; Yun, Chen Chu; Clark, Oliver; Acar, Oguz A; Adamkovič, Matúš; Agnoletti, Giulia; Akil, Atakan M; Alsuhaibani, Zainab; Amenta, Simona; Ananyeva, Olga A; Andreychik, Michael; Angele, Bernhard; Arias Quiñones, Danna Catalina; Arinze, Nwadiogo Chisom; Askelund, Adrian Dahl; Baker, Bradley J; Baskin, Ernest; Batalha, Luisa; Batres, Carlota; Beato, Maria Soledad; Becker, Manuel; Becker, Maja; Behnke, Maciej; Blaison, Christophe; Borghi, Anna M; Brandstätter, Eduard; Buczny, Jacek; Budak, Nesrin; Cabana, Álvaro; Cai, Zhenguang G; Canessa, Enrique C; Cavdan, Müge; Cecchetti, Luca; Chaigneau, Sergio E; Chang, Feria XW; Chartier, Christopher R; Chen, Sau-Chin; Cherniaeva, Elena; Christiansen, Morten H; Chuan-Peng, Hu; Chwiłkowska, Patrycja; Comesaña, Montserrat; Cong, Chin Wen; Cowan, Casey; Dandeneau, Stéphane Daniel; David, Oana A; Davis, William E; Demirag Burak, Elif Gizem; Dixson, Barnaby James Wyld; Du, Hongfei; Duclos, Rod; Duyck, Wouter; Efimova, Liudmila A; Egan, Ciara; Era, Vanessa; Evans, Thomas R; Exner, Anna; Feldman, Gilad; Fellnhofer, Katharina; Fini, Chiara; Fisher, Sarah E; Flowe, Heather D; Garrido-Vásquez, Patricia; Gatti, Daniele; Geller, Jason; Giannouli, Vaitsa; Gorokhova, Anna Sergeevna; Griener, Lindsay M; Grigoryev, Dmitry; Grossmann, Igor; Ghasemi, Hesam; Handjaras, Giacomo; Hauspie, Cathy; He, Zhiran; Heilman, Renata M; Heydari, Amirmahdi; Hine, Alanna M; Hoyer, Karlijn; Hryniszak, Weronika; Hsiao, Janet Hui-wen; Huang, Guanxiong; Ihaya, Keiko; Ilczuk, Ewa; Ishii, Tatsunori; Dumbravă, Andrei; Jankowiak, Katarzyna; Jiang, Xiaoming; Johnson, David C; Jończyk, Rafał; Järvikivi, Juhani; Kaczer, Laura; Kamermans, Kevin Leander; Karl, Johannes A; Karner, Alexander; Kačmár, Pavol; Keech, Jacob J; Kim, M Justin; Korbmacher, Max; Kostorz, Kathrin; Kowal, Marta; Kratochvil, Tomas; Kunisato, Yoshihiko; Kuzminska, Anna O; Körtvélyessy, Lívia; Köse, Fatma Ebru; Köster, Massimo; Kękuś, Magdalena; Labusch, Melanie; Lamm, Claus; Lau, Chaak Ming; Laurino, Julieta; Law, Wilbert; Lettieri, Giada; Levitan, Carmel A; Lu, Jackson G; MacPherson, Sarah E; Malinakova, Klara; Manriquez-Robles, Diego; Marchant, Nicolás; Marelli, Marco; Martínez, Martín; Matthews, Molly F; Mattiassi, Alan DA; Mattoli-Sánchez, Josefina; Mazzuca, Claudia; McGovern, David P; Meier, Zdenek; Melinscak, Filip; Misiak, Michal; Monteiro, Luis Carlos Pereira; Moreau, David; Moreno, Sebastian; Mulgrew, Kate E; Muller, Dominique; Nagy, Tamás; Naranowicz, Marcin; Ndukaihe, Izuchukwu LG; Neta, Maital; Novak, Lukas; Ogbonnaya, Chisom Esther; Paek, Jessica Jee Won; Paltoglou, Aspasia; Parada, Francisco J; Parker, Adam J; Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola; Pavlov, Yuri G; Paydarfard, Saeed; Pegler, Dominik; Peker, Mehmet; Perea, Manuel; Pfattheicher, Stefan; Protzko, John; Prusova, Irina Sergeevna; Pypno-Blajda, Katarzyna; Qiu, Zhuang; Reips, Ulf-Dietrich; Ribeiro, Gianni; Rinaldi, Luca; Roberts, S Craig; Roembke, Tanja C; Romanova, Marina O; Ross, Robert M; Röer, Jan Philipp; Rızaoğlu, Filiz; Saari, Toni T; Sampaolo, Erika; Santos, Anabela Caetano; Sarıçiçek, F Çağlar; Sasaki, Kyoshiro; Scharnowski, Frank; Schmidt, Kathleen; Sepehri, Amir; Serçe, Halid O; Sevincer, A Timur; Siew, Cynthia SQ; Simonetti, Matilde Ellen; Sirota, Miroslav; Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Sorokowski, Piotr; Stephen, Ian D; Stevens, Laura M; Stewart, Suzanne LK; Steyrl, David; Stieger, Stefan; Studzinska, Anna; Suarez, Mar; Szala, Anna; Szmalec, Arnaud; Sznycer, Daniel; Szumowska, Ewa; Söylemez, Sinem; Söylemez, Bahadır; Takashima, Kaito; Tamnes, Christian K; Tan, Joel CR; Tang, Chengxiang; Tavel, Peter; Tejada, Julian; Thompson, Benjamin C; Tiernan, Jake G; Torres-Muñoz, Vicente; Touloumakos, Anna K; Trémolière, Bastien; Tschense, Monika; Türkan, Belgüzar Nilay; Vadillo, Miguel A; Vannucci, Caterina; Varnum, Michael EW; Vasilev, Martin R; Vaughn, Leigh Ann; Verkampt, Fanny; Villar, Liliana M; Wallot, Sebastian; Wang, Lijun; Wang, Ke; Williams, Glenn Patrick; Willinger, David; Wolfe, Kelly; Wormley, Alexandra S; Yamada, Yuki; Yang, Yunkai; Zhou, Yuwei; Zhang, Mengfan; Zheng, Wang; Zheng, Yueyuan; Zhou, Chenghao; Zidkova, Radka; Zumbrunn, Nina Meret; Çoker, Ogeday; Çoksan, Sami; Öner, Sezin; Özdoğru, Asil Ali; Şahin, Seda Merve; Kasanov, Dauren; Arvanitis, Alexios; Brick, Cameron; Colloff, Melissa F; Gallyamova, Albina; Koch, Christopher; Ropovik, Ivan; Zhang, Yucheng; Zhou, Xingxing; Patel, Sneh; Suchow, Jordan W; Lewis, Savannah C |
| Publisher Information: |
Springer Nature |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
eSpace - Manchester Metropolitan University's Research Repository |
| Description: |
Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. Although previous studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations, they have suffered from small sample sizes and a lack of linguistic and cultural diversity. In this Registered Report, we measured the size and the variability of the semantic priming effect across 19 languages (n = 25,163 participants analysed) by creating the largest available database of semantic priming values using an adaptive sampling procedure. We found evidence for semantic priming in terms of differences in response latencies between related word-pair conditions and unrelated word-pair conditions. Model comparisons showed that the inclusion of a random intercept for language improved model fit, providing support for variability in semantic priming across languages. This study highlights the robustness and variability of semantic priming across languages and provides a rich, linguistically diverse dataset for further analysis. The Stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 15 July 2022. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at https://osf.io/u5bp6 (registration) or https://osf.io/q4fjy (preprint version 6, 31 May 2022). |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
text |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/642126/; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x |
| Availability: |
https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/642126/1/SPAML_RR_NHB_V7_osf.pdf |
| Rights: |
in_copyright ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.DD017B7A |
| Database: |
BASE |