Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-r6qrq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-27T20:18:15.307Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The use of a rapid priming technique I: Word recognition development in children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Anne Castles  and
Chris Davis
Anne Castles
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, AUSTRALIA
Chris Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, AUSTRALIA
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The masked priming procedure has been widely used in adult psycholinguistic research as a means of exploring early and automatic processes in written word recognition (see Davis & Castles, this issue). In this paper, we discuss the recent extension of this technique for use in exploring written vocabulary development in children learning to read. We first report data to show that robust masked priming effects can be produced in children as young as seven years old. We then outline the results of some recent studies which illustrate how masked priming data can uncover the processes by which children access written word representations and the ways in which these processes may change over time.

Type
Part III. Psycholinguistics
Information
South Pacific Journal of Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Asia-Pacific Language Research , 1999 , pp. 92 - 98
Copyright
Copyright © University of Papua New Guinea and the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Territory University, Australia 1999

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Andrews, S. (1989). Frequency and neighborhood effects on lexical access: Activation or search? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 15, 802–814.Google Scholar
Andrews, S. (1998). The effect of orthographic similarity on lexical retrieval: Resolving neighborhood conflicts. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 4, 439–461.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bowers, J. S., Arguin, M. & Bub, D.N. (1996). Fast and specific access to orthographic knowledge in a case of letter-by-letter surface alexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 13, 525–567.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bowey, J. A. (1990). Orthographic onsets and rimes as functional units of reading. Memory and Cognition, 18, 419–427.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Castles, A. & Coltheart, M. (1993). Varieties of developmental dyslexia. Cognition, 47, 149–180.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Castles, A. & Coltheart, M. (1996). Cognitive correlates of developmental surface dyslexia: A single case study. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 13, 25–50.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Castles, A., Letcher, T., & Davis, C. (submitted). Neighbourhood effects on masked form-priming in developing readers. Language and Cognitive Processes.Google Scholar
Coltheart, M., Davelaar, E., Jonasson, J. T., & Besner, D. (1977). Access to the internal lexicon. In Dornic, S. (Ed.) Attention and performance VI (pp 535ñ555). New York: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Coltheart, M., Masterson, J., Byng, S., Prior, M., & Riddoch, J. (1983). Surface Dyslexia. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 37A, 469–495.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Coltheart, M., Curtis, B., Atkins, P., & Haller, M. (1993). Models of reading aloud: Dual route and parallel distributed processing approaches. Psychological Review, 100, 589–608.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Davis, C. (1990) Masked priming effects in visual word recognition. Unpublished PhD thesis, Monash University.Google Scholar
Davis, C. & Castles, A. (submitted). The use of a rapid priming technique I: Adult language processing. South Pacific Journal of Psychology.Google Scholar
Davis, C., Iakovidis, E. & Castles, A. (in press). Masked homophone and pseuodohomophone priming in children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.Google Scholar
Forster, K. I. (1976). Accessing the mental lexicon, in Wales, R. J. & Walker, E. (Eds.), New approaches to language mechanisms: A collection of psycholinguistic studies (pp. 257–287). Amsterdam: North-Holland.Google Scholar
Forster, K. I. (1987). Form-priming with masked primes: The best match hypothesis. In Coltheart, M. (Ed.), Attention and Performance VII: The psychology of reading. Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum.Google Scholar
Forster, K. I, & Davis, C. (1984). Repetition priming and frequency attenuation in lexical access. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 10, 680–698.Google Scholar
Forster, K. I. & Davis, C (1991). The density constraint on form-priming in the naming task: Interference effects from a masked prime. Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 1–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Forster, K. I., & Taft, M. (1994) Bodies, antibodies and neighborhood density effects in masked form-priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 20 (4), 844–863.Google ScholarPubMed
Forster, K. I. & Shen, D. (1996). No enemies in the neighborhood: Absence of inhibitory neighborhood effects in lexical decision and semantic categorisation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 22, 696–713.Google Scholar
Forster, K. I., Davis, C., Schoknecht, C., & Carter, R.(1987). Masked priming with graphemically related forms: Repetition or partial activation? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 39, 211–251.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Frith, U. (1985). Beneath the surface of developmental dyslexia. In Patterson, K. E., Marshall, J.C. & Coltheart, M. (Eds.), Surface dyslexia. London: Lawrence Erlbaum.Google Scholar
Grainger, J. (1992). Orthographic neighborhoods in visual word recognition. In Frost, R. & Katz, L. (Eds.), Orthography, phonology, morphology and meaning (pp. 131–146). Amsterdam: North Holland.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grainger, J. O'Regan, J. K., Jacobs, A. M. & Segui, J. (1989). On the role of competing word units in visual word recognition: The neighborhood frequency effect. Perception and Psychophysics, 45, 189–195.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lukatela, G., & Turvey, M. T. (1994). Visual lexical access is initially phonological: 1. Evidence from associate priming by words, homophones and pseudohomophones. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 107–128.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Manis, F. R., Seidenberg, M. S., Doi, L. M., McBride-Chang, C., & Peterson, A. (1996). On the bases of two subtypes of developmental dyslexia. Cognition, 58, 157–195.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Perfetti, C. A. (1992). The representation problem in reading acquisition. In Gough, P. B., Ehri, L. C. & Treiman, R. (Eds), Reading acquisition (pp. 145–174). Hinsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.Google Scholar
Plaut, D.C., McClelland, J. L., Seidenberg, M. S., & Patterson, K. (1996). Understanding normal and impaired word reading: Computational principles in quasi-regular domains. Psychological Review, 103, 56–115.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pratarelli, M. E., Perry, K. E. & Galloway, A. M. (1994) Automatic lexical access in children - new evidence from masked identity-priming. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 58(3), 346–358.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rubenstein, H., Lewis, S., & Rubenstein, M. (1971). Evidence of phonemic recoding in visual word recognition. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 10, 645–657.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Snchez-Casas, R. M. (1996). Lexical access in visual word recognition: The contribution of visual word form. In Carreiras, M., Garcia-Albea, J., Sebastian-Galles, N. (Eds), Language processing in Spanish. Mahway, NJ: Erlbaum.Google Scholar
Segui, J. & Grainger, J. (1990). Priming word recognition with orthographic neighbours: Effects of relative prime-target frequency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 16, 65–76.Google Scholar
Seidenberg, M. S., & McClelland, J. L. (1989). A distributed, developmental model of word recognition and naming. Psychological Review, 96, 523–568.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Seymour, P. H. K. & MacGregor, C. J. (1984) Developmental Dyslexia: A cognitive experimental analysis of phonological, morphemic and visual impairments. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1, 43–82.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Syros, H. (1998). Word fragment priming in children and adults. Unpublished Honours thesis. University of Melbourne.Google Scholar
Taft, M. (1992). The body of the BOSS: Subsyllabic units in the lexical processing of polysyllabic words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 1004–1014.Google Scholar
Van Orden, G. C., Johnston, J. C., & Hale, B. L. (1988). Word identification in reading proceeds from spelling to sound to meaning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 14, 371–386.Google ScholarPubMed
Van Orden, G. C., Pennington, B. F., & Stone, G. O. (1990). Word identification in reading and the promise of subsymbolic psycholinguistics. Psychological Review, 97, 488–522.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Yelland, G. (1993). Is there a place for phonological processes in reading development? Paper presented at the 9th Australian Language and Speech conference, Sydney, 11.Google Scholar
Yelland, G. (1995). Changes in lexical mechanisms as written vocabulary increases. Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Experimental Psychology Conference, Brisbane, 04.Google Scholar