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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Psychol. 2010 Feb 13;60(4):267–290. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.01.003

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Illustration of three theoretical accounts of semantic satiation: a. lexical satiation: repetitions produce satiation in the orthographic representation, causing reading difficulty for that word; b. meaning satiation: repetitions produce satiation in the semantic representation, causing an inability to access that meaning regardless of the manner in which access is attempted; and c. associative satiation: repetitions produce satiation in the association between the repeated lexical item and its meaning, causing an inability to access meaning through the particular repeated word.