Is phonological information mapped onto semantic information in a one-to-one manner?
Spoken word recognition models have to explain the influence of mismatching information on lexical activation. The effect of mismatching information is usually addressed with cross-modal semantic priming experiments using priming effects as a measure of the degree of lexical activation. Pseudowords phonologically related to a semantic associate of the target, e.g., *domato-PAPRIKA, serve as primes. Mismatch effects at the word form level are supposed to percolate unaltered to the semantic level. We show that cross-modal semantic priming might underestimate activation at the word form level. Targets (e.g., PAPRIKA) were preceded by either phonologically related pseudoword primes (e.g., *baprika) or semantically related pseudoword primes (e.g., *domato). Different priming and RT patterns were obtained for the two priming relations.
Bölte
Jens
J
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany. boelte@psy.uni-muenster.de
Coenen
Else
E
D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000379:methods; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics