{"id":1701,"date":"2013-11-25T15:29:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T20:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/?page_id=1701"},"modified":"2014-04-09T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T17:31:22","slug":"religious-priming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/cognition-and-religious-coping-in-parkinsons-disease-project\/religious-priming\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Priming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This experiment is a replication of and expansion upon a previous study performed by Dr. McNamara and Monroe Butler. The previous study shows impaired semantic activation to religious concepts compared to civic concepts, both relative to nonsense phrases. Subjects are &#8220;primed&#8221; with either a religious, civic, or a neutral word before being asked to identify a phrase as sensical or nonsensical.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Examples of the types of phrases used are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Religious: pray quietly<\/li>\n<li>Civic: pledge allegiance<\/li>\n<li>Nonsense: jump cloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hypothesize that healthy control subjects will be primed by the religious word (i.e., faster reaction time) compared to those with Parkinson\u2019s, and that those whose Parkinson&#8217;s disease is left-onset will have the slowest time of all when identifying religious phrases as sensical. They may show no priming at all. Those who participate while off of their Parkinson&#8217;s meds will likely show sensitivity of semantic priming to cortical dopamine levels. Differences between left-onset and right-onset Parkinson&#8217;s subjects are hypothesized to be enlarged with both groups showing increased resistance to priming to religious concepts, the former even more than the latter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This experiment is a replication of and expansion upon a previous study performed by Dr. McNamara and Monroe Butler. The previous study shows impaired semantic activation to religious concepts compared to civic concepts, both relative to nonsense phrases. Subjects are &#8220;primed&#8221; with either a religious, civic, or a neutral word before being asked to identify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1113,"featured_media":0,"parent":1679,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1701\/revisions\/1802"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}