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AUTHOR
Samara Muñoz
Are transposition effects specific to letters?
Recent research has consistently shown that pseudowords created by transposing two letters are perceptually similar to their corresponding base words (e.g., jugde–judge). In the framework of the overlap model (Gomez, Ratcliff, & Perea, 2008), this effect is due to a noisy process in the localization of the “objects” (e.g., letters, kana syllables). In the present study, we examine whether this effect is specific to letter strings or whether it also occurs with other “objects” (namely, digits, symbols, and pseudoletters). To that end, we conducted a series of five masked priming experiments using the same–different task. Results showed robust effects of transposition for all objects, ex…
Electrophysiological signatures of masked transposition priming in a same-different task: Evidence with strings of letters vs. pseudoletters
Research on masked transposed-letter priming (i.e., jugde-JUDGE triggers a faster response than jupte-JUDGE) has become a key phenomenon to reveal how the brain encodes letter position. Recent behavioural evidence suggests that the mechanism responsible for position coding in a masked priming procedure works with familiar "object" identities (e.g., letters, digits, symbols) but not with unfamiliar object identities (e.g., pseudoletters). Here we used event-related potentials (ERPs) to explore the time course of masked transposition priming of letters vs. pseudoletters in a cue-target same-different matching task. Target stimuli were preceded by a masked prime that could be: (i) identical to…
Corrigendum to “Electrophysiological signatures of masked transposition priming in a same-different task: Evidence with strings of letters vs. pseudoletters” [Neurosci. Lett. 515 (2012) 71–76]
wo images were inadvertently left out of the 2nd paragraph of the reviously published article. Please see corrected paragraph and mages below. In a series of behavioural experiments, Garcia-Orza et al. [10] xamined whether masked transposition priming is specific to leter processing. They employed a masked priming same-different atching task in which participants were required to press a utton if cue and target were the same and to press another utton if cue and target were different (see [15,16] for reviews f this task). A briefly presented transposed-letter masked prime as presented immediately before the target stimulus. Garciarza et al. ([10] Experiments 1–4]) found a masked transpositi…