The N400 response is one of the best-studied ERP components associated with language processing. Manipulations such as semantic priming ('coffee' → 'tea') and contextual fit ('I like my coffee with ...

In the 1980s cognitive psychologists were skeptical that semantic priming could affect anything more than lexical effects -- activation of single words, and certainly not more abstract concepts such ...

Semantics is a key feature of language - whether music can activate brain mechanisms related to the processing of semantic meaning information has remained unknown. We compared processing of semantic ...

What follows is a response to a recent article in ScienceNews on the replicability of priming effects in social psychology. [Also relevant is a new article in Nature online by Ed Yong concerning the ...