Effects of lexicality and distinctiveness on repetition blindness |
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Authors: | Campbell Jamie I D Fugelsang Jonathan A Saskatchewan Vanessa D |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. Jamie.Campbell@USask.Ca |
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Abstract: | The repetition blindness (RB) paradigm developed by K. M. Arnell and P. Jolicoeur (1997) was used to examine effects of lexicality (word vs. nonword target pairs) and target distinctiveness on RB. Distinctiveness was manipulated by having both targets (Experiments 1 and 2) or only the first target (Experiment 3) brighter than nontarget items. All 3 experiments demonstrated strong RB for word targets but no RB for nonword targets. This confirms that RB depends on pre-existing memory representations. In fact, there was repetition facilitation for nonwords in Experiments 2 and 3. These experiments also demonstrated that RB is reduced when targets are distinctive. This finding is better understood interms of RB as a failure of memory rather than as a failure of perception. |
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