What Have We Learned About Semantic Priming and What Does the Future Hold?

My goal in this chapter is to survey the semantic priming scene from “30,000 feet”, with any eye for general patterns or principles. I begin by offering bullet-point summaries of each of the preceding chapters:

• Chapters 2-7: Models. The most influential models of semantic priming have been spreading activation models, Becker’s verification model, compound-cue models, distributed network models, and multistage activation models. Other notable models include Forster’s models, Norris’s context-checking model, Neely and Keefe’s hybrid model, and ROUSE.