Semantic priming

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Semantic priming is the effect that lexical items prepare (prime) one's understanding for similar terms or terms within the same subject.

For example, we words like doctor, nurse and hospital prime us for others in a similar set, though priming is not necessarly symmatric, and the word set is only proper when you consider fuzzy sets rather than hard sets.

See also

• Latent Semantic Analysis