title: Transposed-letter priming effect in Hebrew in the same-different task.
abstract: We investigated the interaction between morphological structure and transposed-letter priming using the same-different task with Hebrew, a Semitic language in which morphology has been shown to play a key role in visual word recognition. In contrast to the results observed with lexical decision (e.g., Velan & Frost, 2009, 2011), a transposed-letter priming effect was observed irrespective of the morphological structure of the words. We take these results to suggest that morphological decomposition occurs only in the service of lexical access. We discuss further a unique feature of written Arabic, another Semitic language, to explain the apparent conflict between our findings and those reported by Perea, Abu Mallouh, García-Orza, and Carreiras (2010).
authors.affiliation: ARC Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) and Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. sachiko.kinoshita@mq.edu.au
authors.forename: Sachiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Norris
authors.forename: Noam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Siegelman
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary