Ja. Stolz et D. Besner, Levels of representation in visual word recognition: A dissociation between morphological and semantic processing, J EXP PSY P, 24(6), 1998, pp. 1642-1655
Citations number
65
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
A robust semantic priming effect typically occurs in visual word recognitio
n if the prime is read before a response to the target However, this effect
is dramatically reduced if a letter search is performed on the prime prior
to responding to the target. Three lexical decision experiments document t
he new observation that morphological priming is preserved following letter
search on the prime. This dissociation between morphological and semantic
priming following letter search can be understood in the context of an inte
ractive activation framework. In addition, the implications of these result
s for connectionist and compound cue accounts of word recognition, as well
as the issue of automaticity in word recognition, are discussed.