Masked Priming: The State of the Art

by Sachiko Kinoshita (Editor), Stephen J. Lupker (Editor)

Overview

Masked priming has a short and somewhat controversial history. When used as a tool to study whether semantic processing can occur in the absence of conscious awareness, considerable debate followed, mainly about whether masked priming truly tapped unconscious processes. For research into other components of visual word processing, however - in particular, orthographic, phonological, and morphological - a general consensus about the evidence provided by masked priming results has emerged. This book contains thirteen original chapters in which these three components of visual word processing are examined using the masked priming procedure. The chapters showcase the advantages of masked priming as an alternative to more standard methods of studying language processing that require comparisons of matched items. Based on a recent conference, this book offers up-to-date research findings, and would be valuable to researchers and students of word recognition, psycholinguistics, or reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135432195
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/02/2004
Series:	Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Sachiko Kinoshita, Stephen J. Lupker

Table of Contents

Preface.
Section 1: Mechanisms. The Mechanics ofMasked Priming Kenneth I. Forster, Kathleen Mohan & JoHector.An Abstractionist Account of Masked and Long-TermPrimingJeffrey Bowers. A Retrospective View of MaskedPriming: Toward a Unified Account of Masked and Long-TermRepetition PrimingMichael E.J. Masson & Glen E. Bodner.
Section 2: Orthographics Effects. Transposed-LetterConfusability Effects in Masked Form Priming Manuel Perea& Stephen J. Lupker. Factors Underlying Masked PrimingEffects in Competitive Network Models of Visual WordRecognitionColin J. Davis
Section 3: Phonological Effects. The Robustness of Phonological Effects in FastPrimingRam Frost. Dissociating Automatic Orthographicand Phonological Codes in Lexical Access and LexicalAcquisition Michael B. Johnston & Anne E. Castles TheNature of Masked Onset Priming Effect in Naming: A ReviewSachiko Kinoshita.
Section 4: Morphological Effects. Racehorses, Reindeers and Sparrows: Using Masked Primingto Investigate Morphological Influences on Compound WordIdentification Natalie Shoolman and Sally Andrews.Reading Morphologically-Complex Words: Some Thoughts fromMasked Priming Kathleen Rastle and Matthew H.Davis.
Section 5: Masked Priming in Special Populations.
Masked Priming Across Languages: AnInsight into Bilingual Lexical Processing Chris Davis,Jeesun Kim & Rosa Sanchez-Casas Bilingual Visual WordRecognition: Evidence from Masked Phonological PrimingMarc Brysbaert
Word Recognition Development inChildren: Insights from Masked-PrimingAnne Castles,Chris Davis & Kenneth I. Forster