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The Role of Attention in the Development of Mental Codes in Word Perception

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
1993, v.5, pp.56-82
Jung-Oh Kim (Department of Psychology, Seoul National University)
Woo-Seoc Hann (Department of Psychology, Seoul National University)
Kim, J., & Hann, W. (1993). The Role of Attention in the Development of Mental Codes in Word Perception. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 5, 56-82.

Abstract

Seven experiments were designed to examine the role of attention in the development of mental codes regarding pattern-masked word inputs presented at various identification thresholds. Depending upon type of report required about pattern-masked prime words, either a positive repetition or an associative facilitation effect has been obtained in a lexical decision task. Most notably, associative inhibition effects were also obtained when either a prime or a probe word was slightly moved from its original position. The pattern of results indicates that visual and semantic codes are developed by focused attention to pattern-masked prime words and that these mental codes are locationally specific. Comparison of our results with Carr and Dagenbach's (1990) suggests that associative inhibition effects in our study are qualita-tively different from the effects they have found.

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