The Names And Faces To Identify The Semantic Priming Effect

The quantity of information is rapidly increasing in modern society. People get all kinds of vision impact everyday,especially meet much different persons. It is important that how we identify and memorize them. The aim of this paper is to study the effect of semantic priming in person recognition. The researches suggest that semantic priming effect is due to primes and targets (people) sharing semantic information. However, recent investigations into the type of relationship needed to mediate the semantic priming effect have suggested that the prime and target must be close associate. Categorial priming must not bring the markedly priming effct. Therefor, this research will discuss if the categorical relation of prime and target can bring the priming effect in person recognition.In experiment l,we compared a prime-a target" to "four primes-a target'Mt provided evidence that when participants were asked to make a name familiarity decision it was possible to boost this small categorical effect when multiple (four) primes were presented prior to the target name. In Experiment 2 ,we changed the target name to face to detect if categorial priming could occur. The result showed that there was categorial priming effect when we used the cross domain stimulus. Furthermore, the similarity of the pattern of results produced by the associative priming effect and the boosted categorial effect suggested that the two may be due to the same underlying mechanism in semantic memory.