title: Transposed-letter priming effects in reading aloud words and nonwords.
abstract: A masked nonword prime generated by transposing adjacent inner letters in a word (e.g., jugde) facilitates the recognition of the target word (JUDGE) more than a prime in which the relevant letters are replaced by different letters (e.g., junpe). This transposed-letter (TL) priming effect has been widely interpreted as evidence that the coding of letter position is flexible, rather than precise. Although the TL priming effect has been extensively investigated in the domain of visual word recognition using the lexical decision task, very few studies have investigated this empirical phenomenon in reading aloud. In the present study, we investigated TL priming effects in reading aloud words and nonwords and found that these effects are of equal magnitude for the two types of items. We take this result as support for the view that the TL priming effect arises from noisy perception of letter order within the prime prior to the mapping of orthography to phonology.
authors: Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, TW20 0EX, Egham, London, UK. Betty.Mousikou@rhul.ac.uk.|ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, and Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Betty.Mousikou@rhul.ac.uk.
authors: Petroula
authors: P
authors: Mousikou
authors: ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, and Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.|Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors: Sachiko
authors: S
authors: Kinoshita
authors: Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors: Simon
authors: S
authors: Wu
authors: Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK.
authors: Dennis
authors: D
authors: Norris
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D060865:Repetition Priming; D012660:Semantics; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Computational models of reading aloud; Reading aloud; Transposed-letter (TL) priming effect