Interference and facilitation effects of semantic and phonological contextual priming: A treatment case study

Fink, Ruth and Martin, Nadine and Berkowitz, Rebecca (2009) Interference and facilitation effects of semantic and phonological contextual priming: A treatment case study. [Clinical Aphasiology Paper]

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Abstract

We report a case study of a treatment for naming using contextual production priming, a technique that combines massed repetition priming and naming with context defined by the linguistic relationship among words being trained. Our participant, 402, presented with primarily a phonological impairment, but semantic deficits were also present. Both semantic and phonological training contexts resulted in interference during training but only the semantic context facilitated learning. Additionally, each context influenced the prevalence of error type in that context (fewer semantic errors in the phonological context and fewer semantic errors in the phonological context). Implications of these findings are discussed.

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