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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

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  • Lexical proficiency, encompassing reading comprehension, vocabulary, and spelling, is crucial for language processing.
  • Semantic priming, where exposure to one word influences the response to a subsequent word, reveals underlying lexical access mechanisms.
  • Individual differences in lexical quality may impact the automaticity and depth of semantic processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how individual differences in lexical proficiency modulate masked semantic priming.
  • To examine the role of semantic feature overlap in priming for animal and non-animal categories.
  • To explore the interplay between orthographic and semantic processing in skilled readers.

Main Methods:

  • A masked semantic priming experiment using a word categorization task (animals vs. non-animals).
  • Participants (N=89 skilled readers) classified target words preceded by congruent or incongruent primes with varying semantic overlap.
  • Lexical proficiency was assessed through measures of reading comprehension, vocabulary, and spelling ability.

Main Results:

  • Higher overall lexical proficiency correlated with stronger semantic priming, particularly for animal exemplars.
  • Priming effects for non-exemplars were influenced by both overall proficiency and a specific spelling-meaning interaction.
  • The degree of semantic feature overlap modulated the observed priming effects.

Conclusions:

  • Increased lexical proficiency is associated with more robust automatic semantic priming.
  • Individual differences in lexical quality shape the balance between orthographic and semantic processing during word retrieval.
  • These findings contribute to understanding the neural and cognitive underpinnings of reading expertise.