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Can the dual-route cascaded computational model of reading offer a valid account of the masked onset priming effect?

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Title: Can the dual-route cascaded computational model of reading offer a valid account of the masked onset priming effect?
Related: Quarterly journal of experimental psychology, Vol. 63, Issue 5, (2010), p.984-1003
DOI: 10.1080/17470210903156586
Publisher: Psychology Press
Date: 2010
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 170200 Cognitive Sciences 170100 Psychology
Author/Creator: Mousikou, Petroula
Author/Creator: Coltheart, Max
Author/Creator: Finkbeiner, Matthew
Author/Creator: Saunders, Steven
Description: The masked onset priming effect (MOPE) refers to the empirical finding that target naming is faster when the target (SIB) is preceded by a briefly presented masked prime that starts with the same letter/phoneme (suf) than when it does not (mof; Kinoshita, 2000, Experiment 1). The dual-route cascaded (DRC) computational model of reading (Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon, & Ziegler, 2001) has offered an explanation for how the MOPE might occur in humans. However, there has been some empirical discrepancy regarding whether for nonword items the effect is limited to the first-letter/phoneme overlap between primes and targets or whether orthographic/phonological priming effects occur beyond the first letter/phoneme. Experiment 1 tested these two possibilities. The human results, which were successfully simulated by the DRC model, showed priming beyond the first letter/phoneme. Nevertheless, two recent versions of the DRC model made different predictions regarding the nature of these priming effects. Experiment 2 examined whether it is facilitatory, inhibitory, or both, in order to adjudicate between the two versions of the model. The human results showed that primes exert both facilitatory and inhibitory effects.
Description: 20 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 170200 Cognitive Sciences
Subject Keyword: 170100 Psychology
Subject Keyword: reading aloud
Subject Keyword: masked onset priming effect
Subject Keyword: dual-route cascaded computational model of reading
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/129300
Identifier: ISSN:1747-0218
Identifier: mq-rm-2010001867
Language: eng
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