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What space is explored by nonsense? By following nonsense?
A cucumber being expected to be green. You get some certainty here.
“Lungs of a goodbye” - what color is this?
That similar words can prime one another isn’t news.
While there is evidence that similarity in function, shape, and even manipulation figure in the organization of semantic memory, evidence for color similarity is sparse.
We report [Color] priming (e.g., the word emerald primes the word cucumber) in subjects who have previously completed a color-Stroop task1
How long does the color sense of cucumber (green), linger even after it is no longer important to the task?
The meaning of an object is often characterized as a pattern that is distributed across semantic features.
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If, you are pressing this green into something, it’ll drift there and become part of the makeup of the meaning of adjacent objects, within this description of meaning.
For decades, semantic priming has been a major source of evidence in the way we think about semantic knowledge. The current work highlights that in both the way we interpret semantic priming, and the way we think of concepts, we must take the influence of context, and individual susceptibility to context, into account; critically, this context does not have to be immediate—it can also include “lingering” traces of recent experience: Colorless green ideas can prime—in the right context, for the right people.