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The use of a rapid priming technique I: Adult language processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Chris Davis  and
Anne Castles
Chris Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, AUSTRALIA
Anne Castles
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, AUSTRALIA
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Abstract

This paper discusses the background and use of the masked priming procedure in adult psycholinguistic research. Using this technique, we address the issue of how precise the letter and word processing systems of adults is for rapidly displayed stimuli. Data is reviewed that suggests that, for skilled readers, the letter and word recognition system is sensitively tuned to the discrimination demands imposed on it by the properties of the written language. That is, the recognition system is able to be discriminative where precision is required, but is also able to consider and use incomplete information when this is predictive.

Type
Part III. Psycholinguistics
Information
South Pacific Journal of Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Asia-Pacific Language Research , 1999 , pp. 85 - 91
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Copyright © University of Papua New Guinea and the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Territory University, Australia 1999

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