Kanji lexicality effect in partial repetition priming: the relationship between Kanji word and Kanji character processing.
Two experiments are described using a partial repetition priming paradigm. The prime type was whether a kanji character is used as a word by itself (word type) or not (nonword type). This property is called kanji lexicality. In Experiment 1, the effect of kanji lexicality was not confirmed, although there was a tendency in the responses for word-type primes to be slower than those for nonword-type primes. In Experiment 2, the kanji lexicality effect depended upon the target familiarity, and no facilitation was obtained for high-familiarity words with word-type primes. The results were interpreted in terms of a modified interactive-activation framework.
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Media Center, Osaka City University, Japan. michiko@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp
D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011930:Reaction Time; D014825:Vocabulary