You hear the sentence "Liam was out in the yard digging in the garden," and subsequently you recognize the word mole faster as the animal and not in the sense of being a spy. Which is not a realistic explanation for this effect?
A) Pre-activation of semantic features based on context
B) Bottom-up recognition of multiple meanings
C) Inhibitory links between multiple meanings of polysemous words
D) Masked priming

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Masked priming involves presenting a stimulus below the level of conscious awareness to influence processing, which is not relevant to the context-based recognition of word meanings.

You Hear the Sentence "Liam Was Out in the Yard