{"pk":33290,"title":"Modelling Functional Priming and the Associative Boost","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Using an auditory semantic priming paradigm. Moss, Ostrin, Tyler and Marslen-Wiison (1995, Experiment 2) demonstrated facilitation for category coordinates and functionally-related stimuli both with and without the additive effect of normative association strength. In this paper we replicate these results computationally using a corpus-derived Contextual Similarity measure. In Experiment 1 we consider the adequacy of the Contextual Similarity measure in accounting for Moss et al.'s results, and discuss how fiinctional and categorical semantic relations are represented in corpus-based approaches to lexical semantics. We also offer an explanation for how the Contextual Similarity measure succeeds in replicating the additive effect of association strength on semantic priming without postulating a qualitatively different mechanism for associative priming. We then investigate why previous corpus-based approaches (Lund, Burgess & Atchley, 1995) have failed to produce similar results. We argue that this is because vector representations partly encode temporal co-occurrence information. This explanation is tested in Experiment 2.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32x3c5kd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Scott","middle_name":"","last_name":"McDonald","name_suffix":"","institution":"Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Will","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lowe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1998-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33290/galley/24350/download/"}]}