Phonological priming effects with same-script primes and targets in the masked priming same-different task

Abstract

have suggested that the masked priming same-different task (SDT) is an excellent tool for studying the orthographic coding process because, in most circumstances, performance in that task is driven entirely by orthographic codes. More specifically, although evidence of phonological influences (i.e., phonological priming effects in the SDT) have been reported, Kinoshita, Gayed, and Norris (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(11), 1661-1671, 2018) have claimed that phonological priming does not arise in the SDT when the prime and target are written in the same script and the targets are words, the most typical experimental situation. Indeed, it does appear that no-one has yet reported phonological priming effects in such situations. The question of whether it is possible to observe phonological priming in such situations was more fully examined in the present experiments. Experiment 1 involved a masked priming SDT using Japanese Kanji script in which the primes and targets were homophonic but shared no characters. Experiment 2 was a parallel experiment using Chinese stimuli. In both experiments, phonological priming effects were observed for both one-and two-character words. These experiments indicate that, although the priming effects in masked priming SDTs undoubtedly have a strong orthographic basis, phonological codes also play a role even when the prime and (word) target are written in the same script.

Phonological precision for word recognition in skilled readers

“…It is consistent with a strong relationship between orthographic and phonological processing. Yang et al (2021) used homophonic prime-target pairs that had no character overlap to investigate whether phonology modulated the priming effects in the same-different task when using Japanese (Experiment 1) or Chinese (Experiment 2) script. They observed phonological priming effects in both experiments, concluding that although same-different tasks have a strong orthographic basis, the priming effects are also driven by phonological codes.…”

An examination of models of reading multi-morphemic and pseudo multi-morphemic words using sandwich priming.

“…The power analysis was conducted on the latency data by comparing a linear mixed-effects model with the interaction term and a similar model without that term using a likelihood-ratio test and performing 1,000 simulations for the comparison (see alsoYang al., 2021).5 AsCrepaldi et al (2015) have demonstrated, suffixes do not prime when they are presented at the beginning of the prime letter string (e.g., ersheet does not prime TEACHER), presumably because they are not recognized as suffixes. Therefore, it was possible that our suffix primes, surrounded by ",,," and "...," would not be recognized as suffixes and, hence, would have no impact on target processing.…”

“…4The power analysis was conducted on the latency data by comparing a linear mixed-effects model with the interaction term and a similar model without that term using a likelihood-ratio test and performing 1,000 simulations for the comparison (see also Yang et al, 2021). …”