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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;[...]
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Abstract

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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Organizations and authors

University of Jyväskylä

Adamkovič Matús

Publication type

Publication format

Article

Parent publication type

Journal

Article type

Original article

Audience

Scientific

Peer-reviewed

Peer-Reviewed

MINEDU's publication type classification code

A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

Publication channel information

Volume

Early online

​Publication forum

86256

​Publication forum level

3

Open access

Open access in the publisher’s service

No

Self-archived

Yes

Other information

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

The publication is included in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Publication data collection

Yes