ANAGRAM EFFECTS IN VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION
ANAGRAM EFFECTS IN VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION
ANAGRAM EFFECTS IN VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION
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P. Courrieu & M. Lequeux / Anagram Effects 23 / 40Two lists of sixteen, infrequent 5-letter words were selected, with thefrequencies of use balanced across lists. The words in the first list all had lexicalanagrams more frequent than themselves, while the words in the second list didnot have lexical anagrams. For each word, a non-lexical anagram with nocommon letters at the same position was generated. This served as theanagram prime for the test word in one condition, and as the control prime foranother word in another condition. The prime-target pairing wascounterbalanced in the same manner as in Experiment 2. In all cases, the primeand the test word had no common letters in the same position. The assignmenthal-00429184, version 1 - 1 Nov 2009of the stimuli to the SOA conditions was also counterbalanced. The set ofstimuli was completed with an equal number of distractors, which were regular,5-letter pseudo-words equiprobably paired with an anagram or non-anagramprime.ResultsThe mean response times and percentages of correct lexical decisions aregiven in Table 7. A significant overall interaction was found between the type ofprime and the number of lexical anagrams of the test word (F1(1, 24)=6.49,p