[Corpora-List] Ten questions regarding psycholinguistics

[Linda Bawcom]

Dear List Members,
   
  Try as I might,  I have been unable to get queries answered which I have  sent to authors of articles dealing with psycholinguistics, or simply psycholinguists (perhaps because they are too simplistic or perhaps because they might take too much time to answer). I am therefore hoping that some kind person on the list might be able to answer the following ten questions, or suggest a book that could answer all of them, or perhaps know of  a list such as this one for those in psycholinguistics.  
   
  Kindest regards,
  Linda
   
  General Questions:
  What is:
  1. What is masked priming?
  2. What is a principal component analysis?
  3. What is a neural generator?
  4.  What is masked priming?
  5.  I understand  what a prime is, I am uncertain as to what is meant, in   some experiments, by the target (i.e. faster evaluative decisions were   observed when the target was preceded by an evaluatively consistent  prime)
   
  Below I have underlined that which I don’t understand
   
  1. The N400 effect was introduced to the language literature with a within   sentence implausibility paradigm. 
  2. Using a double lexical decision task rather than a non-response prime  followed by a lexical decision target has been argued

  3.  Local and global semantic processing. . .were characterized by differential  effects on ERP amplitudes.
  4.  This automatic evaluation can lead to affective priming effects.
  5.  . . .examining whether discourse context can overrule the impact of the   core lexical semantic feature animacy. (Is this word being used in the   sense of a grammatical category?)
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