ANAGRAM EFFECTS IN VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION

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P. Courrieu & M. Lequeux / Anagram Effects 22 / 40According to the Activation-Verification hypothesis formulated above, if we takesituations similar to the ones used in Experiment 2 and modify the SOAbetween the prime and the test word, we can make the following predictions. Areduction in SOA should cause a reduction in the probability that candidatesactivated by the anagram prime will be checked. In this case, the inhibitingeffects should disappear, and facilitating effects should appear. In contrast, anincrease in SOA should increase the probability that inhibiting checking will takeplace before the presentation of the test word.hal-00429184, version 1 - 1 Nov 2009MethodParticipantsThirty-two university students (16 women and 16 men) volunteered toparticipate in the experiment. Their native language was French, and they allhad normal or corrected-to-normal vision.ProcedureThe procedure was the same as in Experiment 2, except that two SOAs wereused, one shorter and one longer than in Experiment 2. With the short SOA,both the prime and the mask were displayed for 100 ms each. With the longSOA, both were displayed for 400 ms each. Each participant was tested underboth SOA conditions, in succession, with the order of conditions reversed forhalf of the participants. Twenty-four practice trials preceded each condition.Material
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
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