Department of Educational Psychology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2023 Sep;76(9):2183-2196. doi: 10.1177/17470218221141076. Epub 2023 Jan 18.
We conducted two masked priming experiments to examine how the orthographic system processes words with mirrored letters. In both experiments, four different primes were used: an identity prime, an unrelated control prime, and two mirror-primes in which letters were either mirrored at their vertical or horizontal axis. Task was varied between experiments: In Experiment 1, we used a lexical decision task, and in Experiment 2, we used a cross-case same-different match task. We expected to see priming effects in both mirror-conditions with stronger effects in the vertically than in the horizontally mirrored letters. In the lexical decision task, we observed only vertical priming effects for words, whereas in the same-different task, priming effects were present in both mirror-conditions and for both words and non-words. We discuss the implications of our findings for extant models of orthographic processing.
我们进行了两项掩蔽启动实验，以检验正字法系统如何处理具有镜像字母的单词。在这两项实验中，我们使用了四种不同的启动词：同形启动词、不相关的控制启动词，以及两种镜像启动词，其中字母分别沿着垂直或水平轴镜像。任务在两项实验之间有所不同：在实验 1 中，我们使用词汇判断任务，在实验 2 中，我们使用跨案例同异匹配任务。我们预计在两种镜像条件下都会出现启动效应，且垂直镜像的效应要强于水平镜像。在词汇判断任务中，我们仅观察到了对单词的垂直启动效应，而在同异任务中，在两种镜像条件下都存在启动效应，且对单词和非单词都存在。我们讨论了我们的发现对现有的正字法处理模型的影响。
