title: Phonological effects in handwriting production: evidence from the implicit priming paradigm.
abstract: In the present article, we report 3 experiments using the odd-man-out variant of the implicit priming paradigm, aimed at determining the role played by phonological information during the handwriting process. Participants were asked to write a small set of words learned in response to prompts. Within each block, response words could share initial segments (constant homogeneous) or not (heterogeneous). Also, 2 variable homogeneous blocks were created by including a response word that did not share orthographic onset with the other response (odd-man-out). This odd-man-out could be phonologically related to the targets or not. Experiment 1 showed a preparation effect in the constant homogeneous condition, which disappeared (spoil effect) in the variable condition not phonologically related. However, no spoil effect was found when the odd-man-out shared the phonological initial segment with the targets. In Experiment 2, we obtained a spoil effect in the variable phonologically related condition, but it was significantly smaller than in the variable not phonologically related condition. The effects observed in Experiment 2 vanished in Experiment 3 under articulatory suppression, suggesting that they originated at a sublexical level. These findings suggest that phonological sublexical information is used during handwriting and provide evidence that the implicit priming paradigm (and the odd-man-out version of this) is a suitable tool for handwriting production research.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología Cognitiva, Social y Organizacional, Campus de Guajara, Universidad de La Laguna, 38205 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. oafonso@ull.es
authors.forename: Olivia
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Afonso
authors.forename: Carlos J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Álvarez
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001184:Articulation Disorders; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006236:Handwriting; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D011932:Reading; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities