There is psychophysical evidence that low-level priming, e.g., from oriented gratings, as well as high-level semantic priming, survives crowding. We investigated priming for global translational motion in crowded and noncrowded conditions. The results indicated that reliable motion priming occurs in the noncrowded condition, but motion priming does not survive crowding. Crowding persisted despi...

Elderly priming is a topic within psychology currently under intense scrutiny. Generally defined, elderly priming is the idea that priming stimuli relating to the elderly stereotype make one more likely to subsequently behave in ways consistent with this stereotype (e.g., walking slower). The current paper tests this phenomenon with the prediction that elderly stereotype priming will reduce phy...

In a series of experiments, we examined the effect of requiring subjects to attend to distractors in a test of negative priming. This was accomplished by using a referent size-selection task in which subjects were instructed to name the larger animal and to ignore the smaller animal in a word pair. The result was a quadrupling of the standard negative priming effect, suggesting that negative pr...

In order to evaluate the effects of priming materials and duration of priming on the seed physiological enhancement and biochemical traits of germination in pumpkin seeds a factorial experiment was conducted based on a completely randomized design with three replications at the University of Mohaghegh Ardabili. Treatments were priming with water, NaCl (3%), gibberellic acid (20 mg L-1), and asc...

This thesis introduces the concept of syntactic cross-priming: priming between nonidentical syntactic rules, analogous to lexical association. I also present the hypothesis that cross-priming is related to similarity, to the effect that pairs more similar rules will have higher cross-priming strengths. I introduce a variant of adaptation, crossadaptation as a measure for cross-priming in a corp...

ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized by a microwave-assisted chemical method. ZnO nanostructures were synthesized via a fast reaction between zinc acetate and ammonia at presence citric acid and other effective agents in chemical procedure. Nanostructures were characterized by X-ray diffraction , scanning electron microscopy. Seed yield and seed quality of safflower grown under drought stress. Th...

The question of whether age-of-acquisition (AoA), frequency, and repetition priming effects occur at a common stage or at different stages of processing is addressed. Two single-stage accounts (i.e., cumulative frequency and a neural-network simulation) are considered in regard to their predictions concerning the interactions between AoA and frequency with aging and priming effects. A repetitio...

Delivery of micronutrients to plants through seed priming improves seedling vigour and increases crops yields. Two-year filed trial was conducted in Pančevo, Serbia, with aim study the effect zinc (Zn) on field performance three maize hybrids calcareous chernozem deficient plant available Zn. Seed treatments were: control (without priming), water 4 mM sulphate solution. had significant early gr...