Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
Year of publication
 2025 
Authors
 Buchanan, Erin M.; Cuccolo, Kelly; Heyman, Tom; van Berkel, Niels; Coles, Nicholas A.; Iyer, Aishwarya; Peters, Kim; van ’t Veer, A. E.; 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, A. J. 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 H. C.; 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 James; 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 X. W.; 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 D. A.; Mattoli-Sánchez, Josefina; Mazzuca, Claudia; McGovern, David P.; Meier, Zdenek; Melinscak, Filip; Misiak, Michal; Monteiro, Luis Carlos Pereira; Moreau, David;[...] 
Show moreAbstract
 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). 
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University of Jyväskylä
Adamkovič Matús
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Publication format
Article
Parent publication type
Journal
Article type
Original article
Audience
ScientificPeer-reviewed
Peer-ReviewedMINEDU's publication type classification code
A1 Journal article (refereed), original researchPublication channel information
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Publisher
Volume
Early online
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Publication forum
Publication forum level
3
Open access
Open access in the publisher’s service
No
Self-archived
Yes
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Fields of science
Psychology; Languages
Publication country
United Kingdom
Internationality of the publisher
International
Language
English
International co-publication
No
 Co-publication with a company
No
DOI
10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x
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Yes