Editing Neurolinguistics (section)

====Priming====
{{Main|Priming (psychology)}}
In psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, ''priming'' refers to the phenomenon whereby a subject can recognize a word more quickly if he or she has recently been presented with a word that is similar in meaning<ref name="athabasca"/> or [[Morphology (linguistics)|morphological]] makeup (i.e., composed of similar parts).<ref name="fiorentino"/> If a subject is presented with a "prime" word such as ''doctor'' and then a "target" word such as ''nurse'', if the subject has a faster-than-usual response time to ''nurse'' then the experimenter may assume that word ''nurse'' in the brain had already been accessed when the word ''doctor'' was accessed.<ref name="probe"/> Priming is used to investigate a wide variety of questions about how words are stored and retrieved in the brain<ref name="fiorentino"/><ref name="devlin">{{cite journal | title=Morphology and the internal structure of words | year=2004 |last1=Devlin |first1=Joseph T. |author2=Helen L. Jamison; Paul M. Matthews; Laura M. Gonnerman | pages=14984&ndash;14988 | pmid=15358857 | volume=101 | issue=41 | pmc=522020 | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | doi=10.1073/pnas.0403766101| doi-access=free }}</ref> and how structurally complex sentences are processed.<ref name="zurif">{{cite journal | last1=Zurif | first1=E.B. |author2=D. Swinney; P. Prather; J. Solomon; C. Bushell | year=1993 | title=An on-line analysis of syntactic processing in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia | journal=Brain and Language | pmid=8269334 | volume=45 | issue=3 | pages=448&ndash;464 | doi=10.1006/brln.1993.1054| s2cid=8791285 | doi-access=free }}</ref>