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Semantic processing of crowded stimuli?
Anke Huckauf1, Andre Knops, Hans-Christoph Nuerk
1Faculty of Media, Bauhaus-University of Weimar, Bauhausstr. 11, 99423, Weimar, Germany. anke.huckauf@medien.uni-weimar.de
Abstract:
Effects of semantic processing of crowded characters were investigated using numbers as stimuli. In an identification task, typical spacing effects in crowding were replicated. Using the same stimuli in a magnitude comparison task, a smaller effect of spacing was observed as well as an effect of response congruency. These effects were replicated in a second experiment with varying stimulus-onset asynchronies. In addition, decreasing performance with increasing onset-asynchrony (so-called type-B masking) for incongruent flankers indicates semantic processing of target and flankers. The data show that semantic processing takes place even in crowded stimuli. This argues strongly against common accounts of crowding in terms of early stimulus-driven impairments of processing.
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