TY - JOUR

T1 - Modulation of additive and interactive effects by trial history revisited

AU - Masson, Michael E.J.

AU - Rabe, Maximilian M.

AU - Kliegl, Reinhold

N1 - Funding Information: This research was supported by a discovery grant to Michael E. J. Masson from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and a grant to Reinhold Kliegl from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Data and R scripts for all analyses are available upon request and at the Potsdam Mind Research Repository ( http://read.psych.uni-potsdam.de/PMR2/ ). We thank Marnie Jedynak for assistance with data collection. We are also grateful to Derek Besner and Sachiko Kinoshita for very helpful comments on an earlier version of this article. Publisher Copyright: © 2016, Psychonomic Society, Inc.

PY - 2017/4/1

Y1 - 2017/4/1

N2 - Masson and Kliegl (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 898–914, 2013) reported evidence that the nature of the target stimulus on the previous trial of a lexical decision task modulates the effects of independent variables on the current trial, including additive versus interactive effects of word frequency and stimulus quality. In contrast, recent reanalyses of previously published data from experiments that, unlike the Masson and Kliegl experiments, did not include semantic priming as a factor, found no evidence for modulation of additive effects of frequency and stimulus quality by trial history (Balota, Aschenbrenner, & Yap, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 1563–1571, 2013; O’Malley & Besner, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 1400–1411, 2013). We report two experiments that included semantic priming as a factor and that attempted to replicate the modulatory effects found by Masson and Kliegl. In neither experiment was additivity of frequency and stimulus quality modulated by trial history, converging with the findings reported by Balota et al. and O’Malley and Besner. Other modulatory influences of trial history, however, were replicated in the new experiments and reflect potential trial-by-trial alterations in decision processes.

AB - Masson and Kliegl (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 898–914, 2013) reported evidence that the nature of the target stimulus on the previous trial of a lexical decision task modulates the effects of independent variables on the current trial, including additive versus interactive effects of word frequency and stimulus quality. In contrast, recent reanalyses of previously published data from experiments that, unlike the Masson and Kliegl experiments, did not include semantic priming as a factor, found no evidence for modulation of additive effects of frequency and stimulus quality by trial history (Balota, Aschenbrenner, & Yap, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 1563–1571, 2013; O’Malley & Besner, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 1400–1411, 2013). We report two experiments that included semantic priming as a factor and that attempted to replicate the modulatory effects found by Masson and Kliegl. In neither experiment was additivity of frequency and stimulus quality modulated by trial history, converging with the findings reported by Balota et al. and O’Malley and Besner. Other modulatory influences of trial history, however, were replicated in the new experiments and reflect potential trial-by-trial alterations in decision processes.

KW - Additive and interactive effects

KW - Data transformation

KW - Effects of trial history

KW - Lexical decision

KW - Linear mixed models

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U2 - 10.3758/s13421-016-0666-z

DO - 10.3758/s13421-016-0666-z

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 27787683

AN - SCOPUS:84992752951

VL - 45

SP - 480

EP - 492

JO - Memory and Cognition

JF - Memory and Cognition

SN - 0090-502X

IS - 3

ER -