Taking the Book from the Bookshelf: Masked Constituent Priming Effects from Compound Words and Nonwords.

ABSTRACT: Recent evidence from visual word recognition points to the important role of embedded words, suggesting that embedded words are activated independently of whether they are accompanied by an affix or a non-affix. The goal of the present research was to more closely examine the mechanisms involved in embedded word activation, particularly with respect to the "edge-alignedness" of the embedded word. We conducted two experiments that used masked priming in combination with lexical decision. In Experiment 1, monomorphemic target words were either preceded by a compound word prime (e.g., textbook-BOOK/textbook-TEXT), a compound-nonword prime (e.g., pilebook-BOOK/textpile-TEXT), a non-compound nonword prime (e.g., pimebook-BOOK/textpime-TEXT) or an unrelated prime (e.g., t

SUBMITTER: Beyersmann E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6634347 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature