title: Masked cross-modal priming turns on a glimpse of the prime.
abstract: We examined if cross-modal priming (print to speech) was greater for participants who were aware of the presence of letters in the experiment. Experiment 1 determined that word primes displayed at 47ms were adequately masked. In Experiment 2 (a,b) with primes displayed at 47ms masked priming occurred for within-mode printed targets but not for spoken ones. Experiment 3, with spoken targets, presented primes at two different durations (59, 71ms) and priming was found for participants who reported seeing letters but not for those who did not. The results are discussed in terms how the link between prime and target representations might be strengthened even by cursory awareness of the prime and what this tells us about priming.
authors: The MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Electronic address: chris.davis@uws.edu.au.
authors: Chris
authors: C
authors: Davis
authors: The MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
authors: Jeesun
authors: J
authors: Kim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010470:Perceptual Masking / Q000502:physiology*; D011932:Reading; D060865:Repetition Priming / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cross-modal priming; Masked priming; Prime visibility