What masked words can do: Preactivation or Retrospective recruitment?

The purpose of the present research proposal is to find out whether Bodner & Masson's view can be upheld. The general rationale that will guide all experiments is the question whether masked priming effects activate episodic memory traces when access to lexical memory (the mental lexicon) is sufficient for performing the experimental task. This general question will be approached in two ways: (i) can masked primes access episodic traces that were created in a training phase prior to the experiment and (ii) do masked primes themselves leave episodic traces?

Keywords:PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Disciplines:Linguistics