title: Subliminal repetition primes help detection of phonemes in a picture: Evidence for a phonological level of the priming effects.
abstract: In this research, we combine a cross-form word-picture visual masked priming procedure with an internal phoneme monitoring task to examine repetition priming effects. In this paradigm, participants have to respond to pictures whose names begin with a prespecified target phoneme. This task unambiguously requires retrieving the word-form of the target picture's name and implicitly orients participants' attention towards a phonological level of representation. The experiments were conducted within Spanish, whose highly transparent orthography presumably promotes fast and automatic phonological recoding of subliminal, masked visual word primes. Experiments 1 and 2 show that repetition primes speed up internal phoneme monitoring in the target, compared to primes beginning with a different phoneme from the target, or sharing only their first phoneme with the target. This suggests that repetition primes preactivate the phonological code of the entire target picture's name, hereby speeding up internal monitoring, which is necessarily based on such a code. To further qualify the nature of the phonological code underlying internal phoneme monitoring, a concurrent articulation task was used in Experiment 3. This task did not affect the repetition priming effect. We propose that internal phoneme monitoring is based on an abstract phonological code, prior to its translation into articulation.
authors: a Equipo de Investigación de Psicología Cognitiva del Lenguaje y Psicolingüística, Laboratorio de Psicologia Cognitiva , Universidad Nacional de Cordoba , Córdoba , Argentina.
authors: Laura
authors: L
authors: Manoiloff
authors: b Laboratoire Mémoire et Cognition (INSERM - Paris 5) and CNRS , Paris , France.|d Labex EFL , Paris , France.
authors: Juan
authors: J
authors: Segui
authors: b Laboratoire Mémoire et Cognition (INSERM - Paris 5) and CNRS , Paris , France.|c Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (CNRS-Paris 3) Paris , France.|d Labex EFL , Paris , France.
authors: Pierre
authors: P
authors: Hallé
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D060865:Repetition Priming / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Articulatory suppression; Internal phoneme monitoring; Masked priming; Phonological representation; Word–picture cross-form priming