Perea Manuel, Palti Dafna, Gomez Pablo
Universitat de València, Spain.
Atten Percept Psychophys. 2012 Apr;74(3):481-8. doi: 10.3758/s13414-012-0271-6.
Associative priming effects can be obtained with masked nonword primes or with masked pseudohomophone primes (e.g., judpe-COURT, tode-FROG), but not with visible primes. The usual explanation is that when the prime is visible, these stimuli no longer activate the semantic representations of their base words. Given the important role of transposed-letter stimuli (e.g., jugde) in visual word recognition, here we examined whether or not an associative priming effect could be obtained with visible transposed-letter nonword primes (e.g., jugde-COURT) in a series of lexical decision experiments. Results showed a sizable associative priming effect with visible transposed-letter nonword primes (i.e., jugde-COURT faster than neevr-COURT) in Experiments 1-3 that was close to that with word primes. In contrast, we failed to find a parallel effect with replacement-letter nonword primes (Experiment 2). These findings pose some constraints to models of visual word recognition.
联想启动效应可以通过掩蔽非词启动项或掩蔽假同音字启动项（例如judpe - COURT、tode - FROG）获得，但不能通过可见启动项获得。通常的解释是，当启动项可见时，这些刺激不再激活其基础词的语义表征。鉴于换位字母刺激（例如jugde）在视觉单词识别中的重要作用，我们在此通过一系列词汇判断实验研究了可见换位字母非词启动项（例如jugde - COURT）是否能产生联想启动效应。结果表明，在实验1 - 3中，可见换位字母非词启动项产生了相当大的联想启动效应（即jugde - COURT比neevr - COURT更快），这一效应与单词启动项产生的效应相近。相比之下，我们在替换字母非词启动项实验中未发现类似效应（实验2）。这些发现对视觉单词识别模型提出了一些限制。
