Masson M E, Isaak M I
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, BC, Canada.
Mem Cognit. 1999 May;27(3):399-412. doi: 10.3758/bf03211536.
Masked priming effects in word identification tasks such as lexical decision and word naming have been attributed to a lexical mechanism whereby the masked prime opens a lexical entry corresponding to the target word. Two experiments are reported in which masked repetition priming effects of similar magnitude were obtained with word and nonword targets in a naming task. Masked orthographic priming was more stable for word than for nonword targets, although morphological primes produced no advantage beyond that achieved by matched orthographic primes. These results, taken together with the recent finding that repetition priming of nonwords can be obtained in the lexical decision task, support the view that masked priming of words and nonwords has a nonlexical component. We suggest that masked primes can enhance target identification by contributing to the construction of an orthographic or a phonological representation of the target, regardless of the target's lexical status.
在诸如词汇判断和单词命名等单词识别任务中的掩蔽启动效应，被归因于一种词汇机制，即掩蔽启动词打开了与目标词相对应的词汇项。本文报告了两项实验，在一项命名任务中，单词和非单词目标都获得了相似程度的掩蔽重复启动效应。对于单词目标，掩蔽正字法启动比非单词目标更稳定，尽管形态学启动除了匹配的正字法启动所达到的效果外没有产生优势。这些结果，连同最近在词汇判断任务中可以获得非单词重复启动的发现，支持了单词和非单词的掩蔽启动具有非词汇成分的观点。我们认为，掩蔽启动词可以通过促进目标词的正字法或语音表征的构建来增强目标识别，而不管目标词的词汇状态如何。
