TY - JOUR
T1 - The Pros and Cons of Masked Priming
AU - Forster, Kenneth I.
N1 - Funding Information:
1 This research was supported in part by National Multipurpose Research and Training Grant DC01409 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to the National Center for Neurogenic Communications Disorders at the Uni-versity of Arizona, and by a grant from the McDonnell-Pew Foundation Cognitive Neurosciences Program. I am indebted to Chris Davis, who read several drafts of this paper, and to the Language Group at Macquarie University who provided the impetus for this paper, which is based on a talk given at Macquarie University in June 1997. 2 University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0068. 3 Address all correspondence to Kenneth I. Forster, University of Arizona, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, PO Box 210068, Tucson, Arizona, 85721-0068.
PY - 1998/3
Y1 - 1998/3
N2 - Masked priming paradigms offer the promise of tapping automatic, strategy-free lexical processing, as evidenced by the lack of expectancy disconfirmation effects, and proportionality effects in semantic priming experiments. But several recent findings suggest the effects may be prelexical. These findings concern nonword priming effects in lexical decision and naming, the effects of mixed-case presentation on nonword priming, and the dependence of priming on the nature of the distractors in lexical decision, suggesting possible strategy effects. The theory underlying each of these effects is discussed, and alternative explanations are developed that do not preclude a lexical basis for masked priming effects.
AB - Masked priming paradigms offer the promise of tapping automatic, strategy-free lexical processing, as evidenced by the lack of expectancy disconfirmation effects, and proportionality effects in semantic priming experiments. But several recent findings suggest the effects may be prelexical. These findings concern nonword priming effects in lexical decision and naming, the effects of mixed-case presentation on nonword priming, and the dependence of priming on the nature of the distractors in lexical decision, suggesting possible strategy effects. The theory underlying each of these effects is discussed, and alternative explanations are developed that do not preclude a lexical basis for masked priming effects.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1023202116609
DO - 10.1023/A:1023202116609
M3 - Article
C2 - 9561785
AN - SCOPUS:0032016515
SN - 0090-6905
VL - 27
SP - 203
EP - 233
JO - Journal of psycholinguistic research
JF - Journal of psycholinguistic research
IS - 2
ER -