Masked Priming with Orthographic Neighbors: A Test of the Lexical Competition Assumption

Autor/inn/en	Nakayama, Mariko; Sears, Christopher R.; Lupker, Stephen J.
Titel	Masked Priming with Orthographic Neighbors: A Test of the Lexical Competition Assumption
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34 (2008) 5, S.1236-1260 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
Schlagwörter	Identification; Competition; Language Processing; Models; Stimuli; Experiments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Identifikation; Identifizierung; Wettkampf; Sprachverarbeitung; Analogiemodell; Anreizsystem; Erprobung
Abstract	In models of visual word identification that incorporate inhibitory competition among activated lexical units, a word's higher frequency neighbors will be the word's strongest competitors. Preactivation of these neighbors by a prime is predicted to delay the word's identification. Using the masked priming paradigm (K. I. Forster & C. Davis, 1984, J. Segui and J. Grainger, 1990) reported that, consistent with this prediction, a higher frequency neighbor prime delayed the responses to a lower frequency target, whereas a lower frequency neighbor prime did not delay the responses to a higher frequency target. In the present experiments, using English stimuli, it was found that this pattern held only when the primes and targets had few neighbors; when the primes and targets had many neighbors, lower frequency primes delayed responses to higher frequency targets essentially as much as higher frequency primes delayed responses to lower frequency targets. Several possible explanations for these findings are discussed along with their theoretical implications. Considered together, the results are most consistent with activation-based accounts of the masked priming effect. (As Provided).
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