Research article summary (published 30 Aug 2009):

Semantic transparency and masked morphological priming: the case of prefixed words.

Full Abstract

In four lexical decision experiments, we investigated masked morphological priming with Dutch prefixed words. Reliable effects of morphological relatedness were obtained with visual primes and visual targets in the absence of effects due to pure form overlap. In certain conditions, priming effects were significantly greater with semantically transparent prefixed primes (e.g., rename-name) relative to the priming effects obtained with semantically opaque prefixed words (e.g., relate-late), even with very brief (40-msec) prime durations. With visual primes and auditory targets (cross-modal priming), significant facilitation was found in all related prime conditions, independent of whether or not primes were morphologically related to targets. The results are interpreted within a bimodal hierarchical model of word recognition in which morphological effects arise through the interplay of sublexical (morpho-orthographic) and supralexical (morpho-semantic) representations. The word stimuli from this study may be downloaded as supplemental materials from http://mc.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.

Author information

Author/s: Diependaele, Kevin (K); Sandra, Dominiek (D); Grainger, Jonathan (J);

Affiliation: Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. kevin.diependaele(-atsign-)ugent.be

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Memory & cognition (Mem Cognit), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Sep; vol 37 (issue 6) : pp 895-908

Dates: Created 2009/08/14; Completed 2009/10/19;

PMID: 19679868, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 10/19/2009, IMS Date: )

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Attention Humans Paired-Associate Learning Perceptual Masking Phonetics

Phonetics Reading Recognition (Psychology) Semantics Speech Perception

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