Event Abstract Back to Event Thematic and taxonomic priming effects at different length stimulus onset asynchronies Daria Filippova1* and Heather Winskel1 1 Southern Cross University, Psychology, School of Health and Human Sciences, Australia Aims: People conceptually categorise or group objects in various ways. Two category types that have been identified are taxonomic and thematic. Taxonomic refers to grouping of objects with shared features or being of the same kind, e.g., ‘sheep’ and ‘goat’ are grouped together as they belong to the superordinate category animals. Thematic relations refer to objects that are categorised based on an association, e.g., ‘sheep’ and ‘grass’. Priming effects have been shown to occur for both category types. However, taxonomic and thematic priming have been found to have different time courses when stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) is manipulated. Research has found that a taxonomic priming effect was most apparent at 500ms SOA but declined with a longer SOA, whereas thematic priming was more apparent at a longer than shorter SOA duration (Estes & Jones, 2009). The current research aims to investigate in a single study how SOA duration influences taxonomic and thematic priming effects. Method: A lexical decision semantic priming task was administered to 54 participants. There were two SOA conditions; 500ms and 1500ms. Target words were preceded with thematic, taxonomic and a baseline condition. Results: Taxonomic priming was found to have a greater facilitatory effect than thematic priming at 500ms SOA. Facilitatory effects declined for both taxonomic and thematic priming at the longer SOA duration. Conclusions: There was a greater taxonomic priming effect at 500ms than at the longer SOA. However, the temporal pattern for thematic priming did not concur with previous findings. These results will be compared with Malaysian participants, as research has found categorisation differences in Western and Asian participants. Keywords: priming, taxonomic, thematic, stimulus onset asynchrony, Object categorisation Conference: 12th Annual Psychology Research Conference, 2015, Coffs Harbour, Australia, 25 Sep - 26 Sep, 2015. Presentation Type: Research Topic: Psychology Citation: Filippova D and Winskel H (2015). Thematic and taxonomic priming effects at different length stimulus onset asynchronies. Front. Psychol. Conference Abstract: 12th Annual Psychology Research Conference, 2015. doi: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2015.66.00005 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 23 Sep 2015; Published Online: 23 Sep 2015. * Correspondence: Ms. Daria Filippova, Southern Cross University, Psychology, School of Health and Human Sciences, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2450, Australia, d.filippova.10@student.scu.edu.au Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Daria Filippova Heather Winskel Google Daria Filippova Heather Winskel Google Scholar Daria Filippova Heather Winskel PubMed Daria Filippova Heather Winskel Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.