Fig. 8.

Proportion of passive responses per prime type for Experiment 2. There are significant differences in syntactic priming effects between the two avatar types (p = .033). Passive production increased by 9.5 % with the human-like avatar and only 3.7 % with the computer-like avatar following a passive prime compared to the baseline condition, which confirmed our prediction that participants primed less with the computer-like avatar as it is less human-like. In line with previous research, there were no priming effects for actives