Word superiority in signal detection: Barely a glimpse, yet reading nonetheless

Doyle, John R. and Leach, Colin Wayne 1988. Word superiority in signal detection: Barely a glimpse, yet reading nonetheless. Cognitive Psychology 20 (3) , pp. 283-318. 10.1016/0010-0285(88)90001-1

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Abstract

In Part 1 data from a number of visual masking studies have been reanalyzed to show that, contrary to the conclusions usually drawn from this data, there is statistical evidence of semantic activation at short target-mask stimulus onset asynchrony levels (SOA) and that for levels of performance close to chance, semantic information extracted from briefly presented targets may be used to detect those targets. In Part 2 this hypothesis is tested directly in three experiments. A word superiority effect is found in a signal detection task, showing unequivocally that (i) high-level activation exists at short SOAs and (ii) such activation can affect levels of target detectability. The results undermine the use of signal detectability as a measure of awareness.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics) Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0010-0285
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2019 03:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/37786

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