Haskins Publications

Number	1499
Year	2008
Drawer	26
Entry Date	06/02/2008
Authors	Feldman, L.B. & Basnight-Brown, D.M.
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Publication	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, V.34:No.3, pp. 680-687.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1499.pdf
Abstract	The authors examined patterns of facilitation under forward-masked priming conditions across 3 list contexts (Experiments 1-3) that varied with respect to properties of filler trials - (a) mixed (morphological, orthographic, semantic), (b) identify, and (c) semantic-but held the relatedness proportion constant (75%). Facilitation for targets that were related morphologically to their prime occurred regardless of filler context, but facilitation for semantically related pairs occurred only in the context of identity and semantic fillers. Facilitation was absent for orthographically similar prime-target pairs in all 3 filler contexts when matching numbers or orthographically similar word-word and word-nonword prime-target pairs rendered orthographic similarity uninformative with respect to lexicality of the target. Enhanced semantic and morphological facilitation in the context of identify and semantic relative to mixed fillers support a semantically attuned, as contrasted with a purely form-based,k account of early morphological processing.
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