van Heuven W J, Dijkstra T, Grainger J, Schriefers H
NICI, University of Nijmegen, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2001 Mar;8(1):96-101. doi: 10.3758/bf03196144.
Several studies have found effects of orthographically related masked nonword primes on lexical decisions to target words. These effects have been explained by the neighborhood characteristics of the target word (Forster, 1987), but the neighborhood characteristics of the prime in combination with the target are also found to be important (Hinton, Liversedge, & Underwood, 1998). In this study, we present a new account of masked form-priming effects based on the shared neighborhood of prime and target. Shared neighbors are words that are activated by both prime and target. According to the interactive activation model (McClelland & Rumelhart, 1981), shared neighborhood determines the size of priming effects. This prediction was tested and confirmed in a masked priming experiment that manipulated the shared neighborhood density of complete primes.
多项研究发现，拼写相关的掩蔽非词启动刺激对目标词的词汇判断有影响。这些影响已通过目标词的邻域特征得到解释（福斯特，1987），但启动刺激与目标词相结合的邻域特征也被发现很重要（辛顿、利弗赛奇和安德伍德，1998）。在本研究中，我们基于启动刺激和目标词的共享邻域，提出了一种关于掩蔽形式启动效应的新解释。共享邻域是指由启动刺激和目标词共同激活的词。根据交互式激活模型（麦克莱兰和鲁梅尔哈特，1981），共享邻域决定了启动效应的大小。这一预测在一个掩蔽启动实验中得到了检验和证实，该实验操纵了完整启动刺激的共享邻域密度。
