Pseudoword context effects on letter perception: The role of word misperception

Abstract

Three experiments using the Reicher–Wheeler task tested for letter report accuracy in pseudoword stimuli as a function of the pseudoword's similarity to real words. When pseudowords had a single word neighbour, performance was enhanced (relative to a letter‐in‐x condition) when the neighbour contained the target letter in the correct position, and diminished when it contained the wrong alternative. Increasing the number of compatible word neighbours of pseudoword stimuli had no additional influence on performance over and above the benefits of a single neighbour. This suggests that read‐out from whole‐word orthographic representations following word misperception is one component of pseudoword context effects observed with impoverished stimulus presentation.

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