title: Graded aspects of morphological processing: task and processing time.
abstract: Effects on targets of orthographically (O) and semantically (S) related primes were compared with morphologically related (M) primes in the lexical decision, naming, and go/no go naming tasks. The overall pattern typified the graded nature of morphological processing. Morphological relatedness produced facilitation whose magnitude varied across a range of stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs of 66-300 ms) and tasks. The effect of semantic and orthographic similarity also depended on SOA and on task. Importantly, the effects of morphological relatedness and orthographic similarity diverged along a time course that reflected semantic processing but could only be approximated by the effect of semantic relatedness between prime and target.
authors.affiliation: University at Albany, SUNY and Haskins Laboratories, 270 Crown St. New Haven, CT 06510 USA. if503@albany.edu
authors.forename: Laurie Beth
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Feldman
authors.forename: Brendon
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Prostko
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000379:methods; D012660:Semantics; D013997:Time Factors; D014825:Vocabulary