Top-down feedback normalizes distortion in early visual word recognition: Insights from masked priming.

The identification of visually presented words tolerates distortions in the input format, as Hannagan et al. Plos One, 7, e32121, (2012) demonstrated in a masked priming lexical decision task, showing sizable identity-priming effects with CAPTCHA-like primes. This tolerance to distortion has two potential explanations: bottom-up normalization in the encoding stage (Dehaene et al.

The role of morphology in novel word learning: a registered report.

The majority of the new words that we learn every day as adults are morphologically complex; yet, we do not know much about the role of morphology in novel word learning. In this study, we tackle this issue by comparing the learning of: (i) suffixed novel words (e.g.

Does morphological structure modulate access to embedded word meaning in child readers?

Beginning readers have been shown to be sensitive to the meaning of embedded neighbors (e.g., CROW in CROWN).

Food in the corner and money in the cashews: Semantic activation of embedded stems in the presence or absence of a morphological structure.

In visual word identification, readers automatically access word internal information: they recognize orthographically embedded words (e.g., HAT in THAT) and are sensitive to morphological structure (DEAL-ER, BASKET-BALL).