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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 865-884Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.32.4.865
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letter position coding; masked priming; relative-position priming; orthographic processing; word recognition
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Six experiments apply the masked priming paradigm to investigate how letter position information is computed during printed word perception. Primes formed by a subset of the target's letters facilitated target recognition as long as the relative position of letters was respected across prime and target (e.g., arict vs. acirt as primes for the target apricot). Priming effects were not influenced by whether or not absolute, length-dependent position was respected (e.g., a-ric-t vs. arict/ar-i-ct). Position of overlap of relative-position primes (e.g., apric-apricot; ricot-apricot; arict-apricot) was found to have little influence on the size of priming effects, particularly in conditions (i.e., 33 ms prime durations) where there was no evidence for phonological priming. The results constrain possible schemes for letter position coding.
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