Automatic word form processing in masked priming: An ERP study

Giordana Grossi · Donna Coch

42 citations0/0 files storedPsychophysiology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Reading and Literacy Development Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Abstract

Five prime types (unrelated words, pronounceable nonwords, illegal strings of letters, false fonts, or neutral strings of Xs) preceded word and nonword targets in a masked priming study designed to investigate word form processing as indexed by event-related potentials (ERPs). Participants performed a lexical decision task on targets. In the 150-250-ms epoch at fronto-central, central, and temporo-parietal sites ERPs were smallest to targets preceded by words and nonwords, followed by letter strings, false fonts, and finally neutral primes. This refractory pattern sensitive to orthography supports the view that ERPs in the 150-250-ms epoch index activation of neural systems involved in word form processing and suggests that such activation may be graded, being maximal with word-like stimuli and relatively reduced with alphabet-like stimuli. Further, these results from a masked priming paradigm confirm the automatic nature of word form processing.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 42 citations exist upstream.

References

1991Beginning to read : Thinking and learning about print. By Marilyn Jager Adams. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. Pp. x, 494. Cloth $29.95.1990Beginning to read: thinking and learning about print 2000The visual word form area 2003The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus 2001Cerebral mechanisms of word masking and unconscious repetition priming 2002Language‐specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the Visual Word Form Area 1969Perceptual recognition as a function of meaningfulness of stimulus material.1990Activation of Extrastriate and Frontal Cortical Areas by Visual Words and Word-Like Stimuli

Cited by

2015N1 and P2 to words and wordlike stimuli in late elementary school children and adults

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.