Js. Bowers et al., Orthographic, phonological, and articulatory contributions to masked letter and word priming, J EXP PSY P, 24(6), 1998, pp. 1705-1719
Citations number
55
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
A series of experiments assessed masked priming for letters and words that
are visually similar (SIM) and dissimilar (DIS) in upper- and lowercase for
mats. For letters, robust DIS priming was obtained in a naming task but thi
s priming did not extend to a variety of non-naming tasks. For words, robus
t DIS priming was obtained in both naming and non-naming tasks. SIM letter
and word priming extended to all tasks, but the effects were generally smal
l for letters. The restricted set of conditions for DIS letter priming sugg
ests that this priming is mediated by phonological-articulatory processes,
and the generality of DIS word priming argues that abstract orthographic co
des mediate these effects. Consistent with this conclusion, priming between
homophones (for both letters and words) was found in a naming task, but li
ttle word homophone priming was obtained in a lexical decision task.