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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > semantic satiation

Preferred term

semantic satiation  

Definition

  • Feeling of losing the meaning of a stimulus (e.g. a word or a face) when it is repeated quickly and many times or after a long period of visual fixation.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Balota, D. A., & Black, S. (1997). Semantic satiation in healthy young and older adults. Memory & Cognition, 25(2), 190–202. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03201112

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Esposito, N. J., & Pelton, L. H. (1971). Review of the measurement of semantic satiation. Psychological Bulletin, 75(5), 330–346. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0031001

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Jakobovits, L. A., & Lambert, W. E. (1962). Mediated satiation in verbal transfer. Journal of experimental psychology, 64(4), 346. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0044630

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Lewis, M. B., & Ellis, H. D. (2000). Satiation in name and face recognition. Memory & Cognition, 28(5), 783–788. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198413

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Moulin, C. J. A., Bell, N., Turunen, M., Baharin, A., & O’Connor, A. R. (2021). The the the the induction of jamais vu in the laboratory: Word alienation and semantic satiation. Memory, 29(7), 933-942. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1727519

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: free]
  • • Severance, E., & Washburn, M. F. (1907). The loss of associative power in words after long fixation. The American Journal of Psychology, 18(2), 182–186.

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Smith, L. C. (1984). Semantic satiation affects category membership decision time but not lexical priming. Memory & Cognition, 12(5), 483–488. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198310

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Reviewed by

  • Chris Moulin

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Favre-Félix, A., & Moulin, C. (2020, April 8). Relationship between the “jamais vu” sensation and semantic satiation. https://osf.io/5mpf4/

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