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Two experiments are reported that investigate whether the lexical and orthographic effects typically found in a simultaneous matching task are due to the facilitating effect of linguistic context on letter identification. The first experiment used a delayed matching task (2-sec SOA), with serial incremental display of the letters of the second stimulus (e.g., B, BR, BRA, BRAI, BRAIN). Lexical and orthographic effects were clearly demonstrated when the letters of the second stimulus were displayed rapidly (40 msec/letter), but these effects were absent at a slower speed (400 msec/letter). The same results were obtained in a second experiment, in which the letters of both stimuli were synchronously presented at either the fast rate or the slow rate. These results were interpreted in terms of a multilevel race model that assumes no interaction between levels of processing and attributes the effects to differing degrees of decision-processing lag.
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Forster, K. I., Ratcliff, J., & Murray, W. S.A distinction between lexical and sentence context effects. Unpublished paper, Department of Psychology, Monash University, March 1978.
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This article is based on a paper delivered at the Sixth Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Australian National University, May 1979. The research was supported by a grant from the Australian Research Grants Committee.
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Forster, K.I. Absence of lexical and orthographic effects in a same-different task. Memory & Cognition 8, 210–215 (1980). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197608
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