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A lexical decision experiment tested the effects of briefly presented masked primes that were homophones or pseudohomophones of target words. Different types of nonword foil (pseudohomophones, orthographically regular nonwords, orthographically irregular nonwords) were mixed with the word targets. Pseudohomophone priming effects were independent of nonword foil variations, whereas homophone priming effects varied from being facilitatory in the presence of orthographically regular nonwords, inhibitory in the presence of pseudohomophones, and null in the presence of irregular nonwords. This dissociation in the way nonword foil variations influence masked pseudohomophone and homophone priming effects in the lexical decision task is discussed within the framework of a bimodal extension of the multiple readout model of visual word recognition (Grainger & Jacobs, 1996).
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The authors thank Randi Martin, Annette de Groot, and Johannes Ziegler for helpful comments on this work.
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Ferrand, L., Grainger, J. List context effects on masked phonological priming in the lexical decision task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 3, 515–519 (1996). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03214557
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