priming Definition
prim·ing (prī′miŋ)
noun
- the act of a person or thing that primes
- the explosive used to set off the charge in a gun or in blasting
- primer (sense )
priming Usage Examples
Converse of object
- pump: Most have specific topics for research or patient groups they prefer to fund; some small charities give pump priming for pilot projects.
- show: The advanced group also showed more priming than the intermediates.
- use: We use cross-modal priming in three experiments to examine the resolution of this ambiguity in speech perception.
- mediate: We discuss the implications for McKoon and Ratcliff's theory of mediated priming.
- predict: Thus, there is no reason to expect the viewer's front/back to predict priming or retrieval of information.
- require: New technologies will require initial pump priming from government, and close co-operation between industry and academia to initiate research programs.
Adjective modifier
- syntactic: It reports two studies which showed evidence for syntactic priming in comprehension.
- lexical: Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language.
- semantic: A good example is that of semantic priming ( see chapter 2 ).
- negative: The results will be discussed in relation to current theories of negative priming.
Modifies a noun
- paradigm: The present research for the first time employed the negative priming paradigm to explore the processing of ignored familiar faces.
- experiment: We test this model in four syntactic priming experiments.
- effect: Thus, a significant facilitation effect rather than a negative priming effect was obtained.
- task: The implicit priming task of Meyer ( 1990 ) was adopted.
- funding: The Committee was strongly supportive of any pump priming funding being used for this activity rather than in the area of CPD.
- technique: Year: 1985 Abstract: Experiments on perception without awareness are discussed with special reference to the priming technique.
Noun used with modifier
- repetition: These results pose problems for theories of repetition priming based on reinstatement of prior processing demands.
- pump: There is provision in his budget for ' pump priming ' of pilot projects.
- self: The model also predicts that the distinctiveness of the person's face should interact with the amount of self priming found.
- seed: It would also be used in the seed priming project.
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