title: Masked form Priming is Moderated by the Size of the Letter-Order-Free Orthographic Neighbourhood.
abstract: University students made lexical decisions to targets preceded by masked primes. In Experiment 1, transposed-letter primes were used also in the sandwich priming paradigm, in which the target is briefly pre-presented prior to the prime. The priming effects in the masked paradigm, but not in the sandwich paradigm, were moderated by the density of the letter-order-free neighbourhood of the target. In Experiment 2, letter-order-free neighbour prime words produced a priming cost in masked priming. These results are consistent with the idea that sandwich priming attenuates letter-order-free neighbour competition in target identification. Unexpectedly, no priming cost was produced by conventional (letter-position-preserving) word neighbour primes. Order-free neighbours may produce facilitation of target processing less, and more variably, than conventional neighbours.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
authors.forename: Jennifer S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Burt
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Duncum
keywords: Lexical competition; Lexical decision; Masked priming; Orthographic neighbour; Sandwich priming; Word reading