LIST CONTEXT EFFECTS ON MASKED PHONOLOGICAL PRIMING IN THE LEXICAL DECISION TASK

A lexical decision experiment tested the effects of briefly presented masked primes that were homophones or pseudohomophones of target words . Different types of nonword foil (pseudohomophones, orthographically regular nonwords, orthographically irregular nonwords) were mixed with the word targets. Pseudohomophone priming effects were independent of nonword foil variations, whereas homophone priming effects varied fro m being facilitatory in the presence of orthographically regular nonwo rds, inhibitory in the presence of pseudohomophones, and null in the p resence of irregular nonwords. This dissociation in the way nonword fo il Variations influence masked pseudohomophone and homophone priming e ffects in the lexical decision task is discussed within the framework of a bimodal extension of the multiple readout model of visual word re cognition (Grainger & Jacobs, 1996).