Mirror Letter Priming Is Rightward-Biased but Not Inhibitory: Little Evidence for a Mirror Suppression Mechanism in the Recognition of Mirror Letters

Autor/inn/en	Kinoshita, Sachiko; Liong, Gabrielle
Titel	Mirror Letter Priming Is Rightward-Biased but Not Inhibitory: Little Evidence for a Mirror Suppression Mechanism in the Recognition of Mirror Letters
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49 (2023) 10, S.1523-1538 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kinoshita, Sachiko)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0001239
Schlagwörter	Alphabets; Priming; Inhibition; Word Recognition; Cognitive Processes; Writing Processes; Bias; Generalization; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Buchstabenschrift; Hemmung; Worterkennung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Unlike other visual objects which are invariant to the left-right orientation, mirror letters (e.g., b and d) represent different object identities. Previous masked priming lexical decision studies have suggested that the identification of a mirror letter involves suppression of its mirror image counterpart reporting as evidence that a pseudoword prime containing the mirror letter counterpart slowed down the recognition of target word relative to a control prime containing an unrelated letter (e.g., ibea-idea > ilea-idea). Furthermore, it has been reported recently that this inhibitory mirror priming effect is sensitive to the distributional bias of left/right orientation in the Latin alphabet such that only the more dominant (frequent) right-facing mirror letter prime (e.g., b) produced interference. In the present study, we examined mirror letter priming with single letters and nonlexical letter strings with adult readers. In all experiments, relative to a visually dissimilar control letter prime, both the right-facing and left-facing mirror letter prime consistently facilitated, rather than slowed down the recognition of a target letter (e.g., b-d < w-d). Assessed against an identity prime, mirror primes showed a rightward bias, although it was small in magnitude and not always significant within an individual experiment. These results provide no support for a mirror suppression mechanism in the identification of mirror letters, and an alternative interpretation in terms of noisy perception is suggested. (As Provided).
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