title: Modulation of additive and interactive effects by trial history revisited.
abstract: Masson and Kliegl (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 898-914, 2013) reported evidence that the nature of the target stimulus on the previous trial of a lexical decision task modulates the effects of independent variables on the current trial, including additive versus interactive effects of word frequency and stimulus quality. In contrast, recent reanalyses of previously published data from experiments that, unlike the Masson and Kliegl experiments, did not include semantic priming as a factor, found no evidence for modulation of additive effects of frequency and stimulus quality by trial history (Balota, Aschenbrenner, & Yap, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 1563-1571, 2013; O'Malley & Besner, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 1400-1411, 2013). We report two experiments that included semantic priming as a factor and that attempted to replicate the modulatory effects found by Masson and Kliegl. In neither experiment was additivity of frequency and stimulus quality modulated by trial history, converging with the findings reported by Balota et al. and O'Malley and Besner. Other modulatory influences of trial history, however, were replicated in the new experiments and reflect potential trial-by-trial alterations in decision processes.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Room A234, Cornett Building, P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 2Y2, Canada. mmasson@uvic.ca.
authors: Michael E J
authors: ME
authors: Masson
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.
authors: Maximilian M
authors: MM
authors: Rabe
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam, Germany. kliegl@uni-potsdam.de.
authors: Reinhold
authors: R
authors: Kliegl
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D060865:Repetition Priming / Q000502:physiology*; D012660:Semantics; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Additive and interactive effects; Data transformation; Effects of trial history; Lexical decision; Linear mixed models