Neural mechanism underlying preview effects and masked priming effects in visual word processing

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Argitaratua izan da:Attention, Perception and Psychophysics vol. 87, no. 1 (Jan 2025), p. 5
Egile nagusia: Huang, Xin
Beste egile batzuk: Wong, Brian W L, Ng, Hezul Tin-Yan, Sommer, Werner, Dimigen, Olaf, Maurer, Urs
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Laburpena:Two classic experimental paradigms - masked repetition priming and the boundary paradigm - have played a pivotal role in understanding the process of visual word recognition. Traditionally, these paradigms have been employed by different communities of researchers, with their own long-standing research traditions. Nevertheless, a review of the literature suggests that the brain-electric correlates of word processing established with both paradigms may show interesting similarities, in particular with regard to the location, timing, and direction of NI and N250 effects. However, as of yet, no direct comparison has been undertaken between the two paradigms. In the current study, we used combined eye-tracking/EEG to perform such a within-subject comparison using the same materials (single Chinese characters) as stimuli. To facilitate direct comparisons, we used a simplified version of the boundary paradigm - the single word boundary paradigm. Our results show the typical early repetition effects of NI and N250 for both paradigms. However, repetition effects in N250 (i.e., a reduced negativity following identical-word primes/previews as compared to different-word primes/previews) were larger with the single word boundary paradigm than with masked priming. For N1 effects, repetition effects were similar across the two paradigms, showing a larger N1 after repetitions as compared to alternations. Therefore, the results indicate that at the neural level, a briefly presented and masked foveal prime produces qualitatively similar facilitatory effects on visual word recognition as a parafoveal preview before a single saccade, although such effects appear to be stronger in the latter case.
ISSN:1943-3921
1943-393X
0031-5117
DOI:10.3758/s13414-024-02904-8
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