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Does the familiarity bias hypothesis explain why there is no masked priming for "NO" decisions?

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Title: Does the familiarity bias hypothesis explain why there is no masked priming for "NO" decisions?
Related: Memory and cognition, Vol. 39, Issue 2 (2011), p.319-334
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0021-8
Publisher: Springer New York LLC
Date: 2011
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 170100 Psychology 170200 Cognitive Sciences
Author/Creator: Kinoshita, Sachiko
Author/Creator: Norris, Dennis
Description: Traditional "activation" views of masked priming explain the identity priming effect in terms of facilitation due to ‘pre-activation’ of stored representations. Norris and Kinoshita's (2008) Bayesian Reader theory of masked priming instead explains priming in terms of the evidence that the prime contributes towards the decision required to the target. In support of the Bayesian Reader account, Norris and Kinoshita showed that the absence of priming for nonwords in the lexical decision task and for targets requiring a Different decision in the same–different match task can be explained based on a single principle. Against this, Bowers (2010) argued that the absence of priming should be explained instead by a combination of sublexical priming and "familiarity bias". As evidence, Bowers cited Bodner and Masson’s (1997) finding that nonword priming did emerge with targets presented in visually unfamiliar cAsE-AlTeRnAtEd format. We present evidence that this finding was due to the use of an ambiguous letter in case-alternated format; when using unambiguous letters, we consistently failed to find priming of case-alternated nonwords. We suggest that the Bayesian Reader, rather than the familiarity bias hypothesis, explains the absence of priming.
Description: 16 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 170100 Psychology
Subject Keyword: 170200 Cognitive Sciences
Subject Keyword: masked priming
Subject Keyword: lexical decision
Subject Keyword: same-different task
Subject Keyword: Bayesian reader
Subject Keyword: familiarity bias
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Psychology

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/127812
Identifier: ISSN:0090-502X
Identifier: mq-rm-2010003645
Language: eng
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