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  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

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  • The recycling hypothesis suggests word recognition utilizes modified object recognition neural architecture.
  • Mirror generalization is a known phenomenon in object recognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if mirror generalization occurs in word recognition.
  • To determine at which stage of word recognition mirror generalization is present.
  • To explore potential gender differences in processing mirrored words.

Main Methods:

  • Two masked priming lexical decision experiments were conducted.
  • Mirrored repetition and mirrored transposed letter primes were used.
  • Response times and priming effects for mirrored targets were analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Significant and equivalent priming effects were observed for mirrored targets with mirrored repetition and mirrored transposed letter primes in Study 1.
  • Both mirrored and non-mirrored repetition primes facilitated mirrored target processing in Study 2, with a larger effect for non-mirrored primes.
  • Females exhibited faster response times and a greater mirror priming effect compared to males.

Conclusions:

  • Mirror generalization occurs in the early orthographic stage of word recognition.
  • Mirror generalization does not appear to influence the later stage of lexical access.
  • Gender differences exist in the processing of mirror words.