Using multilevel modeling in the analysis of experimental data: cumulative effects of structural priming in children

0350592 - PSÚ 2011 RIV SK eng J - Journal Article
Smolík, Filip
Using multilevel modeling in the analysis of experimental data: cumulative effects of structural priming in children.
Studia Psychologica. Roč. 52, č. 3 (2010), s. 229-242. ISSN 0039-3320
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z70250504
Keywords : sentence production * syntactic persistence * language production
Subject RIV: AN - Psychology
Impact factor: 0.254, year: 2010

Multilevel modeling is a flexible alternative to the traditional factorial ANOVA approach in the analysis of experimental data with repeated measures. This article describes a psycholinguistic experiment and provides a detailed account of the data analysis, demonstrating the use of multilevel models to include a continuous predictor and complex assumptions about error valiance The experiment investigated the effects of structural priming on reaction times in a word monitoring task Pairs of sentences with identical or different syntactic structures were presented to 4- and 5-year-old children, whose task was to respond to a word presented in the second sentence Multilevel modeling analysis revealed an interaction between the experimental condition and position of the trial within the experiment the reaction times in the same-structure condition decreased over the course of the experiment, while they increased in the different-structure condition.
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