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Sentence primes were compared with two-word primes in three experiments that employed different conditions of context presentation. The two-word primes were created by deleting from the sentence primes function words assumed not to be semantically associated with the target words. Smaller priming effects were found in the two-word condition in all three experiments, and this trend was significant in two of the three experiments. Although a sizable proportion of the sentence priming effect seems to be due to word priming, factors specific to the sentence condition appear to be additional contributors to the effect.
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This research was supported by National Science Foundation Grant BNS80-20594 to Keith E. Stanovich and by a James Madison University faculty research grant to Richard F. West.
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West, R.F., Stanovich, K.E. How much of sentence priming is word priming?. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 26, 1–4 (1988). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334843
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