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How is language stored inside our brains? Are words that are semantically related stored together, or does our brain sort our vocabulary into verbs, nouns, etc.? Reaction-time based priming experiments might shine a little light on this question. In an experiment designed to determine whether relatedness plays a role in the recognition of English compound words primes related to the modifier and primes related to the head were chosen. The participant briefly saw the prime before seeing a compound. They then had to decide whether the compound is an existing English word or a nonce-word. Two questions were posed for the evaluation of the data:

1: Does priming by an English word that is semantically related to the first compound constituent (modifier) facilitate lexical decision of the English compound?

2: Does priming by an English word that is semantically related to the second compound constituent (head) facilitate lexical decision of the English compound?

Whether the compound was correctly recognized as an existing English word as well as the reaction time can give insights on how words are stored in the brain. Based on the results of this survey the presentation will show some directions a bigger study could take.

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Day: 2019-05-24
Start time: 14:30
Duration: 00:30
Room: 103/ H80
Track: Neuro and Psycholinguistics
Language: en

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