On the generality of word superiority effects under various masked presentation conditions. // Visual masking and the dynamics of vision and consciousness. / Eds.: U. Ansorge, G. Francis, M. Herzog, H. Ogmen. Delmenhorst, Germany, 2006. P.13тезисы доклада
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Аннотация:A new burst of interest in the word superiority effects (WSE) emerged a century after the effect had been first described by J.M. Cattell (1898), a former student of the famous W. Wundt’s lab. Although the initial investigations of the WSE both in the 19 th century and in 1960-es (e.g. Reicher, 1969) concerned mostly letter recognition, their studies later spread over a wider area of visual perception and visual attention research, including various types of visual masking. The approach testing interaction of WSE and visual masking under various presentation conditions appears to be quite promising, since it allows psychologists to address to the investigation of different levels of masking. Thus, distinguishing masking phenomena that cannot be influenced by manipulations leading to WSE, on the one hand, and phenomena prone to WSE, on the other hand, might become an additional evidence for different mechanisms underlying those phenomena. Results obtained by different research groups all over the world strongly suggest heterogeneous and hierarchical mechanisms of masking. However, to solve a bunch of remaining problems, new integrated efforts of experimental psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists would be required. A number of recently described word superiority effects under various masking conditions will be discussed and confronted, including the attentional blink under rapid serial visual presentation conditions (Falikman, 2002), lateral masking, or crowding (Fine, 2001), metacontrast masking (Luiga et al., 2002), and some other phenomena that might contribute to the understanding of interactions between WSE and visual attention, a problem intimately bound to the long-standing issue of mechanisms and units of visual awareness dating back to the very first steps of psychology as a science.