Semantic Blindness: Repeated Concepts are Difficult to Encode and                     Recall under Time Pressure

MacKay, Donald G.; Miller, Michelle

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.1994.tb00614.x

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“…Analogous findings for lexical items which are similar along other dimensions have also been reported (Bavelier and Potter, 1992;Bavelier et al, 1994). Finally, RB has been shown to occur for letters, for pictures, for words and their corresponding pictures, and for words and their translation in another language (Bavelier, 1994;Kanwisher and Potter, 1990;MacKay and Miller, 1994). Phonology has also been reported to play a role in RB but phonological similarity by itself has been shown not to be a sufficient factor (Bavelier and Potter, 1992;Kanwisher, 1991; but see Miller and MacKay, 1994).…”

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Identity and similarity factors in repetition blindness: implications for lexical processing

Chialant

Caramazza

1997

Cognition

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Identity and similarity factors in repetition blindness: implications for lexical processing

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Caramazza

1997

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“…Although the above differences may not account for the repetition blindness that was reported by MacKay and Miller (1994), other issues regarding the nature of the materials used and the language background of their participants may have contributed to the effect. First, several of the examples that have been reported in their published paper and previous manuscript that detailed the materials used in the present study were ungrammatical (MacKay & Miller, 1992).…”

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“…Although repetition blindness for noncognate translations has not been examined previously using word lists, MacKay and Miller (1994) investigated this effect using mixed-language, English-Spanish sentences. They noted that the synonym pairs that were embedded in sentences used by Kanwisher and Potter (1990) may not have shared the same referent and, therefore, may not have been the ideal stimuli to use.…”

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“…Clearly, within-language synonyms may also have different connotations and slightly different meanings, as mentioned earlier, whereas translation equivalents for concrete nouns that are commonly used may share a complete overlap of semantic features (see de Groot, 1993, for a discussion of the representation of concrete vs. abstract words and their translations). MacKay and Miller (1994) asked Spanish-English bilingual participants to recall sentences that had been presented using RSVP. The sentences were mixed in English and Spanish with different numbers of words in either language across sentences.…”

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Repetition blindness and bilingual memory: Token individuation for translation equivalents

Altarriba

Soltano

1996

Mem Cogn

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The repetition blindness effect (RB) occurs when individuals are unable to recall a repeated word relative to a nonrepeated word in a sentence or string of words presented in a rapid serial visual presentation task. This effect was explored across languages (English and Spanish) in an attempt to provide evidence for RB at a conceptual level using noncognate translation equivalents (e.g., nephew-sabrina). In the first experiment, RB was found when a word was repeated in an English sentence but not when the two repetitions were in different languages. In the second experiment, RB was found for identical repetitions in Spanish and in English using word lists. However, the crosslanguage condition produced significant facilitation in recall, suggesting that although conceptual processing had taken place, semantic overlap was not sufficient to produce RB.The results confirm Kanwisher's (1987) token individuation hypothesis in the case of translation equivalents.Repetition blindness (RB) (Kanwisher, 1986(Kanwisher, , 1987 refers to the inability to recall a repeated word in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task. For example, for the sentence, "She ate salad andfish even though the fish was raw," readers show poor recall of the second presentation of the word fish relative to recall performance for the following control: "She ate salad and seafood even though thefish was raw." The effect occurs in the repeated case even though the omission of the second word makes the sentence ungrammatical.RB is a robust finding and has been reported now by a number of researchers using a variety of different paradigms (e.g., Hochhaus & Marohn, 1991;Humphreys, Besner, & Quinlan, 1988;Mozer, 1989). The RB effect has been found when both words differ in case (Kanwisher, 1987;Marohn & Hochhaus, 1988) and with as many as three intervening words present between the first and the second repetition. Presentation rates of approximately 8 words per second typically yield this effect, and lengthening presentation rate diminishes blindness (Kanwisher, 1987;Park & Kanwisher, 1994). RB has This work was supported by a Faculty Research Award granted to the first author from the University at Albany, State University of New York. Portions of these data were presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, D.C., November 1993. The authors would like to thank Wendy 1. Forsythe for her assistance in the preparation of materials and Janat Parker and Bennett L. Schwartz for the use of their laboratory facilities at Florida International University, Miami. The authors would also like to thank Mercedes A. Altarriba and Mohamed Omar Roumane for verifying the translations of our sentences and words. Daphne Bavelier, Nancy Kanwisher, and Molly Potter provided very helpful discussions throughout the preparation of this manuscript. Thanks are also extended to Kristen Diliberto, Judith Kroll, and Chun Luo for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article. Correspondence should be sent to 1. Altarriba, Department o...

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“…MacKay and Miller (1994) had proficient bilingual subjects read sentences in which target words in English and Spanish were preceded by within-and across-language identical, semantically related, or different pretarget words. The results were clear in indicating that a semantic version of repetition blindness for semantically similar words occurred even across languages, suggesting that a semantic level of analysis of the word stimuli was probably involved in the effect found.…”

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Short-term consolidation of individual identities leads to Lag-1 sparing.

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Jolicœur

Pascali

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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A rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) technique was used to investigate the role of the nature of processing carried out on targets in the Lag-1 sparing phenomenon. Lag-1 sparing refers to a higher accuracy in the task associated with the 2nd target when the 2 targets are immediately successive in the RSVP stream relative to when there are 1 or 2 intervening items between the targets. In 5 experiments, 0, 1, or 2 digits were embedded with equal probability in RSVP streams of letter distractors. In 4 of the experiments, subjects identified the digits in some blocks of trials, and they counted the number of presented digits in other blocks. In a 5th experiment, the counting task was replaced with a digit-sum task. The most interesting results were those from trials with 2 digits. Lag-1 sparing was always evident when the task involved the explicit identification of the digits. In addition, Lag-1 sparing was evident when subjects were required to sum 2 digits or to count digits of a prespecified parity subclass (e.g., count only even digits). In striking contrast, Lag-1 sparing was absent when subjects were required to count the digits independent of their parity subclass. These results suggest that the occurrence of Lag-1 sparing depends on the type of mental representation that must be generated on the basis of target information.

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Semantic Blindness: Repeated Concepts are Difficult to Encode and Recall under Time Pressure

Cited by 47 publications

References 8 publications

Identity and similarity factors in repetition blindness: implications for lexical processing

Identity and similarity factors in repetition blindness: implications for lexical processing

Repetition blindness and bilingual memory: Token individuation for translation equivalents

Short-term consolidation of individual identities leads to Lag-1 sparing.

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