近中心窩に提示された漢字表記語の意味的処理

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Using a lexical decision task in which one or two primes were followed by a target, three experiments examined semantic priming for parafoveally presented kanji words. The primes and the targets were two-character kanji words or nonwords. The primes presented parafoveally were semantically related or unrelated to the target word. In the first experiment where one prime was presented parafoveally, priming effect was found, that is, the reaction times were faster when the target word was semantically associated with the parafoveal word. In the second and third experiments, two primes were presented foveally and parafoveally. When the foveal prime was a nonword or a word that was unrelated to the target (Experiment 2), priming effect was not found for the parafoveal words. When the foveal prime was a word that was semantically related or unrelated to the target (Experiment 3), again priming effect was not found for the parafoveal words. These results are discussed in relation to the semantic processing of parafoveal kanji words, attention and reading.