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On the nature of the facilitation of visual comparisons by lexical membership

1976; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 7; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3758/bf03337238

2197-9979

Leslie Henderson, Jackie Chard,

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Subjects matched meaningful (e.g., FBI) or meaningless (e.g., IBF) letter strings. For "same" decisions meaningfulness was facilitatory, but this effect was slightly reversed for "different" decisions. Unfamiliar lowercase format abolished the meaningfulness effect. Even when stimulus degradation slowed performance, there was no interaction with meaningfulness.