Does letter position coding depend on consonant/vowel status? Evidence with the masked priming technique.

摘要: Recently, a number of input coding schemes (e.g., SOLAR model, SERIOL open-bigram overlap model) have been proposed that capture the transposed-letter priming effect (i.e., faster response times for jugde-JUDGE than jupte-JUDGE). In their current version, these do not assume any processing differences between vowels and consonants. However, in lexical decision task, Perea Lupker (2004, JML; Lupker, Perea, & Davis, 2008, L&CP) reported effects occurred consonant transpositions but vowel transpositions. This finding poses challenge recently schemes. Here, we report four masked experiments examine whether this consonant/vowel dissociation is task-specific. Experiment 1, used task found only Experiments 2-4, employed same-different - which taps early perceptual processes robust did interact with status. We implications findings front-end models visual word recognition.