Subliminal speech priming of Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from auditory masked priming paradigm

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1041.2023.00529

Abstract

Abstract:

Three experiments were conducted to investigate auditory subliminal priming effect of Mandarin Chinese Using Mandarin Chinese disyllabic words as experimental materials and auditory masking priming paradigm. The results showed that the auditory subliminal repetition priming effect of words was significant, and the auditory subliminal repetition priming effect was not affected by the congruency of the gender between prime and target. However, the subliminal phonological, morpheme and semantic priming effects of words and the subliminal repetition and initial character priming effects of nonwords were not significant. These results indicated that the lexical level information of subliminal two-character Mandarin Chinese words of auditory modality can be unconsciously processed. The auditory subliminal priming effect of two-character Mandarin Chinese words may be based on the unconscious activation of the whole-word representation of the prime words.

Key words: auditory masking priming paradigm, subliminal priming effect, unconscious processing

JIANG Luyao, LI Bingbing. (2023). Subliminal speech priming of Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from auditory masked priming paradigm. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 55(4), 529-541.

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Prime condition	Compression rate	Related prime	Unrelated prime
Repetition
	40%	953 (12.0)	969 (9.9)
	50%	906 (21.6)	970 (19.5)
	60%	861 (18.2)	962 (17.0)
Morphological
	40%	961 (11.4)	972 (14.4)
	50%	953 (20.2)	970 (20.9)
	60%	929 (16.5)	958 (16.7)
Phonological
	40%	957 (11.6)	966 (11.9)
	50%	965 (19.7)	965 (16.5)
	60%	953 (19.4)	960 (16.5)
Semantic
	40%	962 (10.2)	962 (12.5)
	50%	961 (19.6)	968 (22.8)
	60%	930 (16.8)	960 (15.3)

Prime condition	Compression rate	Related prime	Unrelated prime
Repetition
	40%	953 (12.0)	969 (9.9)
	50%	906 (21.6)	970 (19.5)
	60%	861 (18.2)	962 (17.0)
Morphological
	40%	961 (11.4)	972 (14.4)
	50%	953 (20.2)	970 (20.9)
	60%	929 (16.5)	958 (16.7)
Phonological
	40%	957 (11.6)	966 (11.9)
	50%	965 (19.7)	965 (16.5)
	60%	953 (19.4)	960 (16.5)
Semantic
	40%	962 (10.2)	962 (12.5)
	50%	961 (19.6)	968 (22.8)
	60%	930 (16.8)	960 (15.3)

Prime condition	Compression rate	Related prime	Unrelated prime
Repetition
	40%	1068 (16.6)	1072 (16.1)
	50%	1062 (21.9)	1069 (21.7)
	60%	1003 (22.6)	1038 (21.5)
First-character
	40%	1076 (15.5)	1078 (16.2)
	50%	1075 (22.3)	1069 (21.6)
	60%	1025 (21.9)	1031 (20.9)

Prime condition	Compression rate	Related prime	Unrelated prime
Repetition
	40%	1068 (16.6)	1072 (16.1)
	50%	1062 (21.9)	1069 (21.7)
	60%	1003 (22.6)	1038 (21.5)
First-character
	40%	1076 (15.5)	1078 (16.2)
	50%	1075 (22.3)	1069 (21.6)
	60%	1025 (21.9)	1031 (20.9)

Stimulus type	Voice change	Related prime	Unrelated prime
Word	same	918 (19.1)	930 (16.8)
	different	917 (17.5)	933 (18.7)
Nonword	same	1030 (19.7)	1025 (18.4)
	different	1054 (19.7)	1043 (17.7)