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The role of neighbourhood density in transposed-letter priming.

We investigated how transposed-letter (TL) priming effects are modulated by neighbourhood density in lexical decision task and cross-case same-different task. Robust identity priming and TL priming effects were observed in both tasks. Neighbourhood density facilitated 'word' decisions and reduced th...

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Published in:Language & Cognitive Processes Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 506 - 527
Main Authors: Kinoshita S, Castles A, Davis C
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Psychology Press (UK) May2009
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          Kinoshita S
          Castles A
          Davis C
        affil: Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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          Cues Methods
          Decision Making
          Language Processing
          Vocabulary
          Australia
          Case Control Studies
          Coding
          Comparative Studies
          Computer Terminals
          Confidence Intervals
          Factorial Design Australia
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      ab: We investigated how transposed-letter (TL) priming effects are modulated by neighbourhood density in lexical decision task and cross-case same-different task. Robust identity priming and TL priming effects were observed in both tasks. Neighbourhood density facilitated 'word' decisions and reduced the size of identity priming effect in the lexical decision task. It had no effect on the same-different task, and did not modulate identity or TL priming. We take these results as indicating that neighbourhood density modulates priming during lexical access. In the lexical decision task, the difference between identity priming and TL priming was reduced for words from high-density neighbourhood. The last finding is at odds with the 'lexical tuning' hypothesis which has been used to explain modulatory effects of neighbourhood density on masked form priming effects.We also discuss implication of the results for various letter position coding schemes.
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