ERIC Number: EJ742403
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Publication Date: 2006-Aug
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Letter Position Information and Printed Word Perception: The Relative-Position Priming Constraint
Grainger, Jonathan; Granier, Jean-Pierre; Farioli, Fernand; Van Assche, Eva; van Heuven, Walter J. B.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v32 n4 p865-884 Aug 2006
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.
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Experimental Psychology, Alphabets, Visual Perception, Phonology, Language Processing
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Language: English
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