Masked phonological priming effects in English - Center for Reading ...
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K. Rastle, M. Brysbaert / Cognitive Psychology 53 (2006) 97–145 135process <strong>in</strong> word recognition, but had not considered how such a process could be reconciledwith read<strong>in</strong>g aloud data. These divergent positions on the role of phonology <strong>in</strong> visualword recognition provide a good characterisation of the past 15 years of theoretical debate<strong>in</strong> this area. The empirical and computational <strong>in</strong>vestigations of masked <strong>phonological</strong><strong>prim<strong>in</strong>g</strong> presented <strong>in</strong> this article led us to a new position, supported by simulations froman implemented model, which <strong>in</strong>tegrates these oppos<strong>in</strong>g perspectives <strong>in</strong> a relatively successfulmanner.To end on a broader note, <strong>in</strong> consider<strong>in</strong>g the nature of debate <strong>in</strong> this area over the past15 years, we have been struck by the fact that researchers too easily th<strong>in</strong>k <strong>in</strong> terms of yes orno dist<strong>in</strong>ctions (e.g., is there as masked <strong>phonological</strong> <strong>prim<strong>in</strong>g</strong> effect or not?) and do notrealize how often they are mak<strong>in</strong>g assumptions that are based on ‘common sense’ (e.g.,that it is not possible to dist<strong>in</strong>guish words and pseudohomophones on the basis of <strong>phonological</strong><strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation). If our research has any very general implications to impart, it is thatthe two of us could not have come to an agreement about the role of phonology <strong>in</strong> visualword recognition if we had not conducted a quantitative review of the literature, carriedout new well-designed experiments, and evaluated our ideas <strong>in</strong> the context of a work<strong>in</strong>gcomputational model.