Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, W.112 Lagomarcino, Ames, IA 50011-3180, USA.
Mem Cognit. 2012 Jul;40(5):779-90. doi: 10.3758/s13421-012-0183-7.
How orthographically similar are words such as paws and swap, flow and wolf, or live and evil? According to the letter position coding schemes used in models of visual word recognition, these reversed anagrams are considered to be less similar than words that share letters in the same absolute or relative positions (such as home and hose or plan and lane). Therefore, reversed anagrams should not produce the standard orthographic similarity effects found using substitution neighbors (e.g., home, hose). Simulations using the spatial coding model (Davis, Psychological Review 117, 713-758, 2010), for example, predict an inhibitory masked-priming effect for substitution neighbor word pairs but a null effect for reversed anagrams. Nevertheless, we obtained significant inhibitory priming using both stimulus types (Experiment 1). We also demonstrated that robust repetition blindness can be obtained for reversed anagrams (Experiment 2). Reversed anagrams therefore provide a new test for models of visual word recognition and orthographic similarity.
诸如 paws 和 swap、flow 和 wolf 或者 live 和 evil 这样的词在拼写上有多相似？根据视觉词汇识别模型中使用的字母位置编码方案，这些倒拼词被认为不如共享相同绝对或相对位置的字母的词相似（例如 home 和 hose 或 plan 和 lane）。因此，倒拼词不应该产生使用替代邻居词（例如 home、hose）找到的标准正字法相似性效应。例如，使用空间编码模型（Davis，Psychological Review 117，713-758，2010）进行的模拟预测，替代邻居词对会产生抑制掩蔽启动效应，但倒拼词对没有效应。然而，我们使用这两种刺激类型都获得了显著的抑制启动效应（实验 1）。我们还证明了，对于倒拼词也可以获得强大的重复盲（实验 2）。因此，倒拼词为视觉词汇识别和正字法相似性模型提供了新的测试。
