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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Visual similarity effects are common in masked priming, typically explained by letter identity uncertainty.
  • Previous studies found no visual similarity effects for primes with accented vowels, suggesting distinct vowel representations.
  • However, priming effects reappear for non-accented vowels, questioning the distinct representation hypothesis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test if the lack of visual similarity effects with accented vowels is due to accent mark saliency.
  • To investigate the role of diacritical mark salience in masked priming effects.
  • To determine if accented and non-accented vowels are processed differently in Spanish masked priming.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted a masked priming lexical decision experiment.
  • Minimized diacritical mark saliency using primes with the letter 'i' (which has a dot).
  • Manipulated prime-target visual similarity and the presence/absence of accented vowels in Spanish words.

Main Results:

  • A significant visual similarity effect was observed regardless of whether the prime contained an accented vowel.
  • The reduced saliency of accent marks (via the 'i' glyph) reinstated the visual similarity effect.
  • No difference in priming was found between accented and non-accented vowel conditions.

Conclusions:

  • The lack of visual similarity effects with accented vowels is likely due to the high saliency of accent marks.
  • Once diacritical mark saliency is reduced, accented and non-accented vowels are processed similarly in Spanish masked priming.
  • Accent marks themselves, not the vowels, may explain previous null findings for visual similarity effects.