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Priming of part-whole relationships using lexical semantic networks in children with cochlear implants
Rucker, Joshua,author.
Rucker, Joshua,author.
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2018
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This study aimed to explore whether children with cochlear implants have flexibility in their access to semantic networks using a novel semantic-priming task. Children were divided into three groups: children with cochlear implants, age-matched children, and vocabulary-matched children. Participants were asked to label pictures under three priming conditions in order to target the participants’ semantic associations. Effects of semantic priming were measured by variance in labels given on target pictures. Children with cochlear implants labeled pictures differently from typically-developing children with normal hearing. There was no correlation between group or condition and variance in labels given. Nonverbal IQ moderately positively correlated with variance in answers. The differences in labeling may stem from a difference in quality of representations within the lexical-semantic networks. Results from the priming task argue that the construct measured by the task is likely not access to semantic networks. Instead, the task may have measured cognitive flexibility.
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1 online resource (vii, 31 pages).
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Communication Sciences and Disorders