ABSTRACT
It has been known for a long time that the context created by the types of semantic relations present in a test list could influence patterns of semantic priming. To my knowledge, Becker (1980) published the first demonstration of such a finding. He showed that priming for category-exemplar pairs became more facilitation dominant when a list containing such items followed a list containing antonyms or when categoryexemplar pairs were intermixed with antonyms and semantic associates in a single list. Since the publication of Becker’s article, several analogous phenomena have been discovered.
