When are morphemic and semantic priming observed in visual word recognition?

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J. Stolz and D. Besner (1998) reported a dissociation between morphemic and semantic priming in the context of lexical decision. Morphemic priming was observed following letter search on the prime display, but semantic priming was not. Participants in the present experiment identified the colour of a single letter in the prime display before making a lexical decision to the target. Both morphemic and semantic priming were observed. These results are discussed in relation to the observation that identifying the colour of a single letter of a word in the Stroop task is associated with a reduction in the size of the Stroop effect as compared to when all letters are coloured.

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Author/s: Macnevin, Christa (C); Besner, Derek (D);

Affiliation: University of Waterloo.

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

Journal: Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale (Can J Exp Psychol), published in Canada. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Jun; vol 56 (issue 2) : pp 112-9

Dates: Created 2002/06/17; Completed 2002/08/14; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12066419, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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