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- Title
A behavioral database for masked form priming.
- Authors
Adelman, James; Johnson, Rebecca; McCormick, Samantha; McKague, Meredith; Kinoshita, Sachiko; Bowers, Jeffrey; Perry, Jason; Lupker, Stephen; Forster, Kenneth; Cortese, Michael; Scaltritti, Michele; Aschenbrenner, Andrew; Coane, Jennifer; White, Laurence; Yap, Melvin; Davis, Chris; Kim, Jeesun; Davis, Colin
- Abstract
Reading involves a process of matching an orthographic input with stored representations in lexical memory. The masked priming paradigm has become a standard tool for investigating this process. Use of existing results from this paradigm can be limited by the precision of the data and the need for cross-experiment comparisons that lack normal experimental controls. Here, we present a single, large, high-precision, multicondition experiment to address these problems. Over 1,000 participants from 14 sites responded to 840 trials involving 28 different types of orthographically related primes (e.g., castfe-CASTLE) in a lexical decision task, as well as completing measures of spelling and vocabulary. The data were indeed highly sensitive to differences between conditions: After correction for multiple comparisons, prime type condition differences of 2.90 ms and above reached significance at the 5% level. This article presents the method of data collection and preliminary findings from these data, which included replications of the most widely agreed-upon differences between prime types, further evidence for systematic individual differences in susceptibility to priming, and new evidence regarding lexical properties associated with a target word's susceptibility to priming. These analyses will form a basis for the use of these data in quantitative model fitting and evaluation and for future exploration of these data that will inform and motivate new experiments.
- Subjects
DATABASE research; COMPUTER files; BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE (Psychology); PRIMING (Psychology)
- Publication
Behavior Research Methods, 2014, Vol 46, Issue 4, p1052
- ISSN
1554-351X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13428-013-0442-y