Repetition and form priming interact with neighborhood density at a brief stimulus onset asynchrony.
The relationships between repetition- and form-priming effects and neighborhood density were analyzed in two masked priming experiments with the lexical decision task. Given that form-priming effects appear to be influenced by a word's orthographic neighborhood, it is theoretically important to find out whether repetition priming also differs as a function of the word's orthographic neighborhood. Within an activation framework, repetition- and form-priming effects are just quantitatively different phenomena, whereas the two effects are qualitatively different in a serial-ordered model of lexical access (the entry-opening model). The results show that repetition- and form-priming effects were stronger for hermit words than for words with many neighbors. These results pose some problems for both activation and serial-ordered models. The implications of these results for determining how neighbors affect the identification of a word are discussed.
Perea
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Universitat de València, Spain. mperea@uv.es
Rosa
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D000328:Adult; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D013997:Time Factors