Fig. 1.

The Eye-Tracking/Negative Priming paradigm. To probe activation of similar-sounding words, participants heard words and identified corresponding pictures in the presence of phonological competitor pictures while their eye-movements were tracked (top panel). To probe inhibition of competitor words, Word Recognition trials were followed by priming probe trials (bottom panel) that probed inhibition of competitor items (grey asterisks in locations previously occupied by competitor pictures, column A), relative to control items (grey asterisks in locations previously occupied by control pictures, column B), and target items (grey asterisks in locations previously occupied by target pictures, column C). Participants responded by pressing one of four keys, arranged in a square corresponding to the location of items on the stimulus display (response row).