Dostępność znaczeń w warunkach powtarzalnej prezentacji. Badania nad zjawiskiem wysycania semantycznego

Abstract

Semantic satiation has been defined as a phenomenon where intense repetition causes a word to temporarily lose its meaning. The phenomenon appears as a result of a prolonged mental stimulation of the nodes in the semantic network leading to its overloading. The research aimed at estimating how fast the phenomenon of semantic satiation appears under the conditions of different amount of lexical materiał presented and at defining the extent to which the emotional stimuli influence the course of semantic satiation. The findings indicate that the phenomenon which causes a word to lose its meaning for a listener docs not intensify in propotion to the inerease in the number of presentations of the “satiated” semantic content and does not occur in the case of a relatively smali number of repeatable stimuli. A different course and intensity of semantic satiation phenomenon in rclation to semantic content of diverse valence has also been shown; likewise, the effect of the regression of semantic priming under the conditions of semantic satiation has also been indicated.