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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2012 Mar 12;55(6):1613–1625. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/10-0260)

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic representation of the sequence of visual events for the masked priming task. The prime shown here is an xg string, used in the unprimed condition. In the primed condition, this screen would show the target word in lower-case letters. All stimuli were in 48-point, black, Arial font except for the prime item, which was 30-point font to assure that it was fully covered by the masks. For screens with two presentation times listed, the first was used for control participants and the second for participants with aphasia. Different response deadlines and inter-trial intervals for the two groups were used to balance participant abilities with appropriate, comfortable task pacing and the need for rapid responses to obtain masked priming effects (Draine and Greenwald, 1998). Analysis of outcomes for a few participants with these parameters matched demonstrated that these differences did not materially alter the patterns of performance reported here.